http://www.catalannewsagency.com
The GDP of Catalonia increased by 1.5% during 2014, according to the definitive figures released by the CatalanStatisticsInstitute (Idescat) on Friday. However, on the same day, the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) published its economic growth figures for 2014 and announced that the Catalan economy had grown by 1.4% last year, the same rate as Spain. In any case, both figures are quite positive after many years of economic crisis and slowdown. In fact, 2014 has been the best year since 2007, when the Catalan economy grew by 3.2% according to the Idescat. The final figure for 2014 is higher than the provisional 1.2% growth rate previously announced. FollowingEuropean Union instructions, the calculations for last year include R&D activities, as well as prostitution and trafficking of drugs and tobacco.
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/business/item/catalan-economy-grew-by-1-5-in-2014-the-best-year-since-2007

published:27 Mar 2015

views:64

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How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" CatalanYou Can Learn Piano From Basic to Advance by Watching These MusicClips
Fum, Fum, Fum (/ˌfʊm ˌfʊm ˈfʊm/ FUUM FUUM FUUM; Catalan: [ˈfum ˈfum ˈfum]) is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.
It is thought to have originated in the 16th or 17th century. The word "fum" means smoke in Catalan, and it may simply refer to the smoke rising from a chimney as seen from afar, or, as indicated in the New Oxford Book of Carols, "may imitate the sound of a drum (or perhaps the strumming of a guitar)". It is not typical of Spanish tradition but rather of Catalan tradition. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) defines "fum" as "to play upon a fiddle," quoting Ben Jonson, "Follow me, and fum as you go."
One source, the Musical Heritage Society insert 3428 (Christmas Songs From Around the World), indicates that "fum, fum, fum" is an onomatopoeia imitating the noise of a rocking cradle, and that the rhythms come from the Sardana, a courtly dance which originated in Catalonia and the Provence.
Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories.
Catalan evolved from Vulgar Latin around the eastern Pyrenees in the 9th century. During the Low Middle Ages it saw a golden age as the literary and dominant language of the Crown of Aragon, and was widely used all over the Mediterranean. The union of Aragon with the other territories of Spain in 1479 marked the start of the decline of the language. In 1659 Spain ceded Northern Catalonia to France, and Catalan was banned in both states in the early 18th century. 19th-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, which culminated in the 1913 orthographic standardization, and the officialization of the language during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–39). However, the Francoist dictatorship (1939–75) banned the language again.
Since the Spanish transition to democracy (1975–1982), Catalan has been recognized as an official language, language of education, and language of mass media, all of which have contributed to its increased prestige. There is no parallel in Europe of such a large, bilingual, non-state speech community.
Catalan dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation. The terms "Catalan" and "Valencian" (respectively used in Catalonia and the Valencian Community) are two different names for the same language. There are two institutions regulating two standard varieties, the Institute of Catalan Studies in Catalonia and the Valencian Academy of the Language in Valencia. The two standards are based on the same orthographical norms and the differences are similar to those between British and American English.
Catalan shares many traits with its neighboring Romance languages. However, despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Peninsula, Catalan differs more from Iberian Romance (such as Spanish and Portuguese) in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar than from Gallo-Romance (Occitan, French, Gallo-Italic languages, etc.).These similarities are most notable with Occitan.
Catalan has an inflectional grammar, with two genders (masculine, feminine), and two numbers (singular, plural). Pronouns are also inflected for case, animacy[citation needed] and politeness, and can be combined in very complex ways. Verbs are split in several paradigms and are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and gender. In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters, in contrast with many other Romance languages

published:23 Nov 2015

views:1086

Saudi tourists visiting Barcelona prefer to stay in Ciutat Vella while Japanese prefer to stay in l’Eixample; average spending by Chinese visitors is 429 € / day while a Swedish tourist just spends 94 € / day; many tourists arriving by cruise ship to the Catalan capital do not visit the city. We know these facts thanks to a big data study which analyzes the mobile phone data of tourists and matches it with the data of credit-card payments made by foreigners.
Local authorities, year after year, are publishing statistics of tourists, and their data may change with big data. If we consider the latest reports published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received in 2015 just over 68 million international tourists. During the same period, a total of 8.3 million tourists stayed in Barcelona. Both are record figures but are they real or are these statistics a rough estimate?
CEO of RocaSalvatella and digital marketing expert, who explaines how big data will revolutionize the tourism sector. Are tourist destinations like Barcelona taking advantage of big data to manage better the flow of visitors they receive? What possibilities do we face now with the use of this data?
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

published:12 May 2016

views:1757

Spain's economy expanded by 0.7 percent between October and December from the previous three months, the National Statistics Institute has confirmed in its final growth assessment.
For all of 2016, the economy grew by 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015. It was the third straight year of expansion since the country came out of recession.
Consumer spending was helped by a recovery in the job market while exports hit a new high last year.
The number of people signing on to pay social security - a…
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One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work as the economic crisis tightens its grip on the country. The NationalStatisticsInstitute said Friday that 85,000 more people joined the ranks of the unemployed between July and September, raising the total to 5.78m. The figures brought the country's unemployment rate up by around 0.4 percentage points in the third quarter, to 25.02 per cent. Jesus Gallego-Garcia, an international coordinator of the General Workers Union, talks to Al Jazeera from Madrid about the economic crisis.

published:26 Oct 2012

views:1653

In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two biggest pre-Columbian civilizations, mine a mountain made of silver, mishandle their economy, and lose it all by the mid-1700s. Come along for the roller coaster ride with Charles I (he was also Charles V), Philip II, Atahualpa, Moctezuma, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro as Spain rises and falls, and takes two empires and China down with them.
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(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism.
While most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, some locals have been exasperated by the crowds of tourists.
In the first two months of this year, the number of holidaymakers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015.
Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year. ABTA, the United Kingdom's largest travel association and Iberia's main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.
That's broadly seen as good news for the two Iberian economies, which nosedived during Europe's recent financial crisis - but not everyone is cheering.
With the boom showing no signs of slowing and the summer vacation season approaching, some locals are fed up with throngs of tourists clogging the narrow streets of the peninsula's centuries-old cities and crowding its celebrated beaches.
In Palma, capital of the popular Spanish island of Mallorca, graffiti in English appeared on city walls last month saying, "tourist you are the terrorist" and "tourist go home."
In Barcelona, complaints about overcrowding have grown so much that residents elected a mayor last year who is making good on promises to put a brake on new hotel construction and is exchanging ideas with New York City officials on how to cope with the crush.
Tourism analysts say security concerns are helping drive business toward the western Mediterranean areas and away from Europeans' other traditional summer hotspots, especially Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
Turkey's visitor count in April was down nearly 30 percent compared to a year earlier, the tourism ministry said Friday.
Spain, Europe's most popular destination after France, hosted 68.1 million tourists last year - almost 5 percent up on the previous year - with the United Kingdom, France and Germany sending most visitors.
The tourist trade brought in 67.4 billion euros (75.3 billion US dollars) in 2015, the national statistics agency said.
In the first three months of this year, tourism created almost 89,000 new Spanish jobs.
In a country with 20 percent unemployment, that's a welcome development - but some say the surge has to be better managed.
"We are not going to be like Venice, where neighbours and locals have to leave the city while tourists invade it. What must we do?" asks Juan Itxaso, head of the Sagrada Familia neighbours' association in Barcelona.
The Catalan capital of 1.6 million people received 4.2 million tourists in 2005. Last year, that number reached 7 million, triggering alarm.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau is determined to find a balance.
Her administration has imposed a moratorium on new hotel accommodation and is mulling the introduction of a "tourist tax" on visitors, with revenue being spent on other sectors in order to spread the benefits.
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published:16 Nov 2016

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SHOTLIST
AP TELEVISION
1. Wide of people gathered outside Spanish parliament
2. Protesters standing in front of police fence, with police cars in background
3. Close of woman walking with tablet computer
4. Mid of protesters in front of fence
5. Cameraman filming police forces through fence
6. Various of protesters standing in front of police forces with a fence separating the two
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) RosarioPerez, Protester:
"There will be some running, there will be some beating, there will be people reorganising their groups, there will be containers in flames. I just hope I can run enough. But we have to tolerate (it)."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Martin, Protester:
"I am bored of surrounding the parliament and then going back home, I feel like this whole situation should just blow up, otherwise this is just boredom. This country still surprises me, how come it has not blown up yet? This is unacceptable."
9. Wide of people outside parliament
STORYLINE
Protesters gathered outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid on Thursday, as the country's National Statistics Institute announced that more than 6 (m) million Spaniards are unemployed for the first time ever.
Spain's jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the National Statistics Institute said.
On Thursday, 1,400 police were deployed around Parliament and the building was totally cordoned off ahead of an evening demonstration.
Parliament cancelled its session for the day but blamed reasons other than the rally.
Spain has been in recession for much of the past four years as it struggles to deal with the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector in 2008.
The agency said the number of people unemployed rose by 237,400 people in the first three months of the year, a 1.1 percent increase from the previous quarter.
In the previous decade the country's economy was thriving, generating (m) millions of jobs.
The government's handling of the crisis has sparked almost daily protests.
Several previous rallies close to Parliament have ended in clashes with police.
The InteriorMinistry said police arrested four people and confiscated material they believe was to be used to start fires at bank offices in the city.
The ministry claims violent, anti-establishment groups are behind the rally.
Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy has acknowledged that 2013 will be a bad year but insists that it would have been worse without the reforms.
The International Monetary Fund indicated last week that Spain's economy will contract by 1.6 percent this year.
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National Statistics Institute (Chile)

The National Statistics Institute of Chile (Spanish:Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Chile, INE) is a state-run organization of the Government of Chile, created in the second half of the 19th century and tasked with performing a general census of population and housing, then collecting, producing and publishing official demographic statistics of people in Chile, in addition to other specific tasks entrusted to it by law.

Background

Its antecedents lie in the initiatives of PresidentManuel Bulnes and his minister, Manuel Rengifo, to draw up the second population census and obtain statistical data of the country. By Decree No. 18 of March 27, 1843, the Office of Statistics was created, Ministry of Interior to provide knowledge of the departments and provinces. It put the INE in charge of producing the national population census every 10 years, as required by the Census Act of July 12, 1843.

Law No. 187 of September 17, 1847 established the office as a permanent body of the state. By 1853, it was legally required that each section chief of the ministries collect and submit data to the Bureau of Statistics. Subsequently and by various legal modifications, it was called Dirección General de Estadísticas (1927–1953), Servicio Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (1953–1960), Dirección de Estadísticas y Censos (1960–1970). It has called by its current name since 1970, and it has been under the Ministry of Economy since 1927.

Catalan economy grew by 1.5% in 2014, the best year since 2007

http://www.catalannewsagency.com
The GDP of Catalonia increased by 1.5% during 2014, according to the definitive figures released by the CatalanStatisticsInstitute (Idescat) on Friday. However, on the same day, the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) published its economic growth figures for 2014 and announced that the Catalan economy had grown by 1.4% last year, the same rate as Spain. In any case, both figures are quite positive after many years of economic crisis and slowdown. In fact, 2014 has been the best year since 2007, when the Catalan economy grew by 3.2% according to the Idescat. The final figure for 2014 is higher than the provisional 1.2% growth rate previously announced. FollowingEuropean Union instructions, the calculations for last year include R&D activities, as well as prostitution and trafficking of drugs and tobacco.
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/business/item/catalan-economy-grew-by-1-5-in-2014-the-best-year-since-2007

0:34

How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" Catalan

How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" Catalan

How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" Catalan

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How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" CatalanYou Can Learn Piano From Basic to Advance by Watching These MusicClips
Fum, Fum, Fum (/ˌfʊm ˌfʊm ˈfʊm/ FUUM FUUM FUUM; Catalan: [ˈfum ˈfum ˈfum]) is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.
It is thought to have originated in the 16th or 17th century. The word "fum" means smoke in Catalan, and it may simply refer to the smoke rising from a chimney as seen from afar, or, as indicated in the New Oxford Book of Carols, "may imitate the sound of a drum (or perhaps the strumming of a guitar)". It is not typical of Spanish tradition but rather of Catalan tradition. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) defines "fum" as "to play upon a fiddle," quoting Ben Jonson, "Follow me, and fum as you go."
One source, the Musical Heritage Society insert 3428 (Christmas Songs From Around the World), indicates that "fum, fum, fum" is an onomatopoeia imitating the noise of a rocking cradle, and that the rhythms come from the Sardana, a courtly dance which originated in Catalonia and the Provence.
Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories.
Catalan evolved from Vulgar Latin around the eastern Pyrenees in the 9th century. During the Low Middle Ages it saw a golden age as the literary and dominant language of the Crown of Aragon, and was widely used all over the Mediterranean. The union of Aragon with the other territories of Spain in 1479 marked the start of the decline of the language. In 1659 Spain ceded Northern Catalonia to France, and Catalan was banned in both states in the early 18th century. 19th-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, which culminated in the 1913 orthographic standardization, and the officialization of the language during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–39). However, the Francoist dictatorship (1939–75) banned the language again.
Since the Spanish transition to democracy (1975–1982), Catalan has been recognized as an official language, language of education, and language of mass media, all of which have contributed to its increased prestige. There is no parallel in Europe of such a large, bilingual, non-state speech community.
Catalan dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation. The terms "Catalan" and "Valencian" (respectively used in Catalonia and the Valencian Community) are two different names for the same language. There are two institutions regulating two standard varieties, the Institute of Catalan Studies in Catalonia and the Valencian Academy of the Language in Valencia. The two standards are based on the same orthographical norms and the differences are similar to those between British and American English.
Catalan shares many traits with its neighboring Romance languages. However, despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Peninsula, Catalan differs more from Iberian Romance (such as Spanish and Portuguese) in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar than from Gallo-Romance (Occitan, French, Gallo-Italic languages, etc.).These similarities are most notable with Occitan.
Catalan has an inflectional grammar, with two genders (masculine, feminine), and two numbers (singular, plural). Pronouns are also inflected for case, animacy[citation needed] and politeness, and can be combined in very complex ways. Verbs are split in several paradigms and are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and gender. In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters, in contrast with many other Romance languages

Saudi tourists visiting Barcelona prefer to stay in Ciutat Vella while Japanese prefer to stay in l’Eixample; average spending by Chinese visitors is 429 € / day while a Swedish tourist just spends 94 € / day; many tourists arriving by cruise ship to the Catalan capital do not visit the city. We know these facts thanks to a big data study which analyzes the mobile phone data of tourists and matches it with the data of credit-card payments made by foreigners.
Local authorities, year after year, are publishing statistics of tourists, and their data may change with big data. If we consider the latest reports published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received in 2015 just over 68 million international tourists. During the same period, a total of 8.3 million tourists stayed in Barcelona. Both are record figures but are they real or are these statistics a rough estimate?
CEO of RocaSalvatella and digital marketing expert, who explaines how big data will revolutionize the tourism sector. Are tourist destinations like Barcelona taking advantage of big data to manage better the flow of visitors they receive? What possibilities do we face now with the use of this data?
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Spain's economy expanded by 0.7 percent between October and December from the previous three months, the National Statistics Institute has confirmed in its final growth assessment.
For all of 2016, the economy grew by 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015. It was the third straight year of expansion since the country came out of recession.
Consumer spending was helped by a recovery in the job market while exports hit a new high last year.
The number of people signing on to pay social security - a…
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Discussing Spain's economic crisis

One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work as the economic crisis tightens its grip on the country. The NationalStatisticsInstitute said Friday that 85,000 more people joined the ranks of the unemployed between July and September, raising the total to 5.78m. The figures brought the country's unemployment rate up by around 0.4 percentage points in the third quarter, to 25.02 per cent. Jesus Gallego-Garcia, an international coordinator of the General Workers Union, talks to Al Jazeera from Madrid about the economic crisis.

In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two biggest pre-Columbian civilizations, mine a mountain made of silver, mishandle their economy, and lose it all by the mid-1700s. Come along for the roller coaster ride with Charles I (he was also Charles V), Philip II, Atahualpa, Moctezuma, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro as Spain rises and falls, and takes two empires and China down with them.
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2:51

Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism.
While most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, some locals have been exasperated by the crowds of tourists.
In the first two months of this year, the number of holidaymakers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015.
Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year. ABTA, the United Kingdom's largest travel association and Iberia's main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.
That's broadly seen as good news for the two Iberian economies, which nosedived during Europe's recent financial crisis - but not everyone is cheering.
With the boom showing no signs of slowing and the summer vacation season approaching, some locals are fed up with throngs of tourists clogging the narrow streets of the peninsula's centuries-old cities and crowding its celebrated beaches.
In Palma, capital of the popular Spanish island of Mallorca, graffiti in English appeared on city walls last month saying, "tourist you are the terrorist" and "tourist go home."
In Barcelona, complaints about overcrowding have grown so much that residents elected a mayor last year who is making good on promises to put a brake on new hotel construction and is exchanging ideas with New York City officials on how to cope with the crush.
Tourism analysts say security concerns are helping drive business toward the western Mediterranean areas and away from Europeans' other traditional summer hotspots, especially Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
Turkey's visitor count in April was down nearly 30 percent compared to a year earlier, the tourism ministry said Friday.
Spain, Europe's most popular destination after France, hosted 68.1 million tourists last year - almost 5 percent up on the previous year - with the United Kingdom, France and Germany sending most visitors.
The tourist trade brought in 67.4 billion euros (75.3 billion US dollars) in 2015, the national statistics agency said.
In the first three months of this year, tourism created almost 89,000 new Spanish jobs.
In a country with 20 percent unemployment, that's a welcome development - but some say the surge has to be better managed.
"We are not going to be like Venice, where neighbours and locals have to leave the city while tourists invade it. What must we do?" asks Juan Itxaso, head of the Sagrada Familia neighbours' association in Barcelona.
The Catalan capital of 1.6 million people received 4.2 million tourists in 2005. Last year, that number reached 7 million, triggering alarm.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau is determined to find a balance.
Her administration has imposed a moratorium on new hotel accommodation and is mulling the introduction of a "tourist tax" on visitors, with revenue being spent on other sectors in order to spread the benefits.
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1:21

Anti-austerity protest as unemployment hits record high

Anti-austerity protest as unemployment hits record high

Anti-austerity protest as unemployment hits record high

SHOTLIST
AP TELEVISION
1. Wide of people gathered outside Spanish parliament
2. Protesters standing in front of police fence, with police cars in background
3. Close of woman walking with tablet computer
4. Mid of protesters in front of fence
5. Cameraman filming police forces through fence
6. Various of protesters standing in front of police forces with a fence separating the two
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) RosarioPerez, Protester:
"There will be some running, there will be some beating, there will be people reorganising their groups, there will be containers in flames. I just hope I can run enough. But we have to tolerate (it)."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Martin, Protester:
"I am bored of surrounding the parliament and then going back home, I feel like this whole situation should just blow up, otherwise this is just boredom. This country still surprises me, how come it has not blown up yet? This is unacceptable."
9. Wide of people outside parliament
STORYLINE
Protesters gathered outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid on Thursday, as the country's National Statistics Institute announced that more than 6 (m) million Spaniards are unemployed for the first time ever.
Spain's jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the National Statistics Institute said.
On Thursday, 1,400 police were deployed around Parliament and the building was totally cordoned off ahead of an evening demonstration.
Parliament cancelled its session for the day but blamed reasons other than the rally.
Spain has been in recession for much of the past four years as it struggles to deal with the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector in 2008.
The agency said the number of people unemployed rose by 237,400 people in the first three months of the year, a 1.1 percent increase from the previous quarter.
In the previous decade the country's economy was thriving, generating (m) millions of jobs.
The government's handling of the crisis has sparked almost daily protests.
Several previous rallies close to Parliament have ended in clashes with police.
The InteriorMinistry said police arrested four people and confiscated material they believe was to be used to start fires at bank offices in the city.
The ministry claims violent, anti-establishment groups are behind the rally.
Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy has acknowledged that 2013 will be a bad year but insists that it would have been worse without the reforms.
The International Monetary Fund indicated last week that Spain's economy will contract by 1.6 percent this year.
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/b90fc596a64465dabaea98516da575d1
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Catalan economy grew by 1.5% in 2014, the best year since 2007

http://www.catalannewsagency.com
The GDP of Catalonia increased by 1.5% during 2014, according to the definitive figures released by the CatalanStatisticsInstitute (Idescat) on Friday. However, on the same day, the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) published its economic growth figures for 2014 and announced that the Catalan economy had grown by 1.4% last year, the same rate as Spain. In any case, both figures are quite positive after many years of economic crisis and slowdown. In fact, 2014 has been the best year since 2007, when the Catalan economy grew by 3.2% according to the Idescat. The final figure for 2014 is higher than the provisional 1.2% growth rate previously announced. FollowingEuropean Union instructions, the calculations for last year include R&D activities, as well as ...

Saudi tourists visiting Barcelona prefer to stay in Ciutat Vella while Japanese prefer to stay in l’Eixample; average spending by Chinese visitors is 429 € / day while a Swedish tourist just spends 94 € / day; many tourists arriving by cruise ship to the Catalan capital do not visit the city. We know these facts thanks to a big data study which analyzes the mobile phone data of tourists and matches it with the data of credit-card payments made by foreigners.
Local authorities, year after year, are publishing statistics of tourists, and their data may change with big data. If we consider the latest reports published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received in 2015 just over 68 million international tourists. During the same period, a total of 8.3 million tourists stayed...

Spain's economy expanded by 0.7 percent between October and December from the previous three months, the National Statistics Institute has confirmed in its final growth assessment.
For all of 2016, the economy grew by 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015. It was the third straight year of expansion since the country came out of recession.
Consumer spending was helped by a recovery in the job market while exports hit a new high last year.
The number of people signing on to pay social security - a…
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Discussing Spain's economic crisis

One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work as the economic crisis tightens its grip on the country. The NationalStatisticsInstitute said Friday that 85,000 more people joined the ranks of the unemployed between July and September, raising the total to 5.78m. The figures brought the country's unemployment rate up by around 0.4 percentage points in the third quarter, to 25.02 per cent. Jesus Gallego-Garcia, an international coordinator of the General Workers Union, talks to Al Jazeera from Madrid about the economic crisis.

Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism.
While most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, some locals have been exasperated by the crowds of tourists.
In the first two months of this year, the number of holidaymakers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015.
Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year. ABTA, the United Kingdom's largest travel association and Iberia's main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.
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published: 16 Nov 2016

Anti-austerity protest as unemployment hits record high

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1. Wide of people gathered outside Spanish parliament
2. Protesters standing in front of police fence, with police cars in background
3. Close of woman walking with tablet computer
4. Mid of protesters in front of fence
5. Cameraman filming police forces through fence
6. Various of protesters standing in front of police forces with a fence separating the two
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) RosarioPerez, Protester:
"There will be some running, there will be some beating, there will be people reorganising their groups, there will be containers in flames. I just hope I can run enough. But we have to tolerate (it)."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Martin, Protester:
"I am bored of surrounding the parliament and then going back home, I feel like this whole situation shou...

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The GDP of Catalonia increased by 1.5% during 2014, according to the definitive figures released by the CatalanStatisticsInstitute (Idescat) on Friday. However, on the same day, the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) published its economic growth figures for 2014 and announced that the Catalan economy had grown by 1.4% last year, the same rate as Spain. In any case, both figures are quite positive after many years of economic crisis and slowdown. In fact, 2014 has been the best year since 2007, when the Catalan economy grew by 3.2% according to the Idescat. The final figure for 2014 is higher than the provisional 1.2% growth rate previously announced. FollowingEuropean Union instructions, the calculations for last year include R&D activities, as well as prostitution and trafficking of drugs and tobacco.
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/business/item/catalan-economy-grew-by-1-5-in-2014-the-best-year-since-2007

http://www.catalannewsagency.com
The GDP of Catalonia increased by 1.5% during 2014, according to the definitive figures released by the CatalanStatisticsInstitute (Idescat) on Friday. However, on the same day, the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) published its economic growth figures for 2014 and announced that the Catalan economy had grown by 1.4% last year, the same rate as Spain. In any case, both figures are quite positive after many years of economic crisis and slowdown. In fact, 2014 has been the best year since 2007, when the Catalan economy grew by 3.2% according to the Idescat. The final figure for 2014 is higher than the provisional 1.2% growth rate previously announced. FollowingEuropean Union instructions, the calculations for last year include R&D activities, as well as prostitution and trafficking of drugs and tobacco.
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/business/item/catalan-economy-grew-by-1-5-in-2014-the-best-year-since-2007

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How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" CatalanYou Can Learn Piano From Basic to Advance by Watching These MusicClips
Fum, Fum, Fum (/ˌfʊm ˌfʊm ˈfʊm/ FUUM FUUM FUUM; Catalan: [ˈfum ˈfum ˈfum]) is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.
It is thought to have originated in the 16th or 17th century. The word "fum" means smoke in Catalan, and it may simply refer to the smoke rising from a chimney as seen from afar, or, as indicated in the New Oxford Book of Carols, "may imitate the sound of a drum (or perhaps the strumming of a guitar)". It is not typical of Spanish tradition but rather of Catalan tradition. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) defines "fum" as "to play upon a fiddle," quoting Ben Jonson, "Follow me, and fum as you go."
One source, the Musical Heritage Society insert 3428 (Christmas Songs From Around the World), indicates that "fum, fum, fum" is an onomatopoeia imitating the noise of a rocking cradle, and that the rhythms come from the Sardana, a courtly dance which originated in Catalonia and the Provence.
Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories.
Catalan evolved from Vulgar Latin around the eastern Pyrenees in the 9th century. During the Low Middle Ages it saw a golden age as the literary and dominant language of the Crown of Aragon, and was widely used all over the Mediterranean. The union of Aragon with the other territories of Spain in 1479 marked the start of the decline of the language. In 1659 Spain ceded Northern Catalonia to France, and Catalan was banned in both states in the early 18th century. 19th-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, which culminated in the 1913 orthographic standardization, and the officialization of the language during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–39). However, the Francoist dictatorship (1939–75) banned the language again.
Since the Spanish transition to democracy (1975–1982), Catalan has been recognized as an official language, language of education, and language of mass media, all of which have contributed to its increased prestige. There is no parallel in Europe of such a large, bilingual, non-state speech community.
Catalan dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation. The terms "Catalan" and "Valencian" (respectively used in Catalonia and the Valencian Community) are two different names for the same language. There are two institutions regulating two standard varieties, the Institute of Catalan Studies in Catalonia and the Valencian Academy of the Language in Valencia. The two standards are based on the same orthographical norms and the differences are similar to those between British and American English.
Catalan shares many traits with its neighboring Romance languages. However, despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Peninsula, Catalan differs more from Iberian Romance (such as Spanish and Portuguese) in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar than from Gallo-Romance (Occitan, French, Gallo-Italic languages, etc.).These similarities are most notable with Occitan.
Catalan has an inflectional grammar, with two genders (masculine, feminine), and two numbers (singular, plural). Pronouns are also inflected for case, animacy[citation needed] and politeness, and can be combined in very complex ways. Verbs are split in several paradigms and are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and gender. In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters, in contrast with many other Romance languages

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How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" CatalanYou Can Learn Piano From Basic to Advance by Watching These MusicClips
Fum, Fum, Fum (/ˌfʊm ˌfʊm ˈfʊm/ FUUM FUUM FUUM; Catalan: [ˈfum ˈfum ˈfum]) is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.
It is thought to have originated in the 16th or 17th century. The word "fum" means smoke in Catalan, and it may simply refer to the smoke rising from a chimney as seen from afar, or, as indicated in the New Oxford Book of Carols, "may imitate the sound of a drum (or perhaps the strumming of a guitar)". It is not typical of Spanish tradition but rather of Catalan tradition. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) defines "fum" as "to play upon a fiddle," quoting Ben Jonson, "Follow me, and fum as you go."
One source, the Musical Heritage Society insert 3428 (Christmas Songs From Around the World), indicates that "fum, fum, fum" is an onomatopoeia imitating the noise of a rocking cradle, and that the rhythms come from the Sardana, a courtly dance which originated in Catalonia and the Provence.
Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories.
Catalan evolved from Vulgar Latin around the eastern Pyrenees in the 9th century. During the Low Middle Ages it saw a golden age as the literary and dominant language of the Crown of Aragon, and was widely used all over the Mediterranean. The union of Aragon with the other territories of Spain in 1479 marked the start of the decline of the language. In 1659 Spain ceded Northern Catalonia to France, and Catalan was banned in both states in the early 18th century. 19th-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, which culminated in the 1913 orthographic standardization, and the officialization of the language during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–39). However, the Francoist dictatorship (1939–75) banned the language again.
Since the Spanish transition to democracy (1975–1982), Catalan has been recognized as an official language, language of education, and language of mass media, all of which have contributed to its increased prestige. There is no parallel in Europe of such a large, bilingual, non-state speech community.
Catalan dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation. The terms "Catalan" and "Valencian" (respectively used in Catalonia and the Valencian Community) are two different names for the same language. There are two institutions regulating two standard varieties, the Institute of Catalan Studies in Catalonia and the Valencian Academy of the Language in Valencia. The two standards are based on the same orthographical norms and the differences are similar to those between British and American English.
Catalan shares many traits with its neighboring Romance languages. However, despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Peninsula, Catalan differs more from Iberian Romance (such as Spanish and Portuguese) in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar than from Gallo-Romance (Occitan, French, Gallo-Italic languages, etc.).These similarities are most notable with Occitan.
Catalan has an inflectional grammar, with two genders (masculine, feminine), and two numbers (singular, plural). Pronouns are also inflected for case, animacy[citation needed] and politeness, and can be combined in very complex ways. Verbs are split in several paradigms and are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and gender. In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters, in contrast with many other Romance languages

Saudi tourists visiting Barcelona prefer to stay in Ciutat Vella while Japanese prefer to stay in l’Eixample; average spending by Chinese visitors is 429 € / day while a Swedish tourist just spends 94 € / day; many tourists arriving by cruise ship to the Catalan capital do not visit the city. We know these facts thanks to a big data study which analyzes the mobile phone data of tourists and matches it with the data of credit-card payments made by foreigners.
Local authorities, year after year, are publishing statistics of tourists, and their data may change with big data. If we consider the latest reports published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received in 2015 just over 68 million international tourists. During the same period, a total of 8.3 million tourists stayed in Barcelona. Both are record figures but are they real or are these statistics a rough estimate?
CEO of RocaSalvatella and digital marketing expert, who explaines how big data will revolutionize the tourism sector. Are tourist destinations like Barcelona taking advantage of big data to manage better the flow of visitors they receive? What possibilities do we face now with the use of this data?
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Saudi tourists visiting Barcelona prefer to stay in Ciutat Vella while Japanese prefer to stay in l’Eixample; average spending by Chinese visitors is 429 € / day while a Swedish tourist just spends 94 € / day; many tourists arriving by cruise ship to the Catalan capital do not visit the city. We know these facts thanks to a big data study which analyzes the mobile phone data of tourists and matches it with the data of credit-card payments made by foreigners.
Local authorities, year after year, are publishing statistics of tourists, and their data may change with big data. If we consider the latest reports published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received in 2015 just over 68 million international tourists. During the same period, a total of 8.3 million tourists stayed in Barcelona. Both are record figures but are they real or are these statistics a rough estimate?
CEO of RocaSalvatella and digital marketing expert, who explaines how big data will revolutionize the tourism sector. Are tourist destinations like Barcelona taking advantage of big data to manage better the flow of visitors they receive? What possibilities do we face now with the use of this data?
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Spain's economy expanded by 0.7 percent between October and December from the previous three months, the National Statistics Institute has confirmed in its final growth assessment.
For all of 2016, the economy grew by 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015. It was the third straight year of expansion since the country came out of recession.
Consumer spending was helped by a recovery in the job market while exports hit a new high last year.
The number of people signing on to pay social security - a…
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Spain's economy expanded by 0.7 percent between October and December from the previous three months, the National Statistics Institute has confirmed in its final growth assessment.
For all of 2016, the economy grew by 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015. It was the third straight year of expansion since the country came out of recession.
Consumer spending was helped by a recovery in the job market while exports hit a new high last year.
The number of people signing on to pay social security - a…
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One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work as the economic crisis tightens its grip on the country. The NationalStatisticsInstitute said Friday that 85,000 more people joined the ranks of the unemployed between July and September, raising the total to 5.78m. The figures brought the country's unemployment rate up by around 0.4 percentage points in the third quarter, to 25.02 per cent. Jesus Gallego-Garcia, an international coordinator of the General Workers Union, talks to Al Jazeera from Madrid about the economic crisis.

One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work as the economic crisis tightens its grip on the country. The NationalStatisticsInstitute said Friday that 85,000 more people joined the ranks of the unemployed between July and September, raising the total to 5.78m. The figures brought the country's unemployment rate up by around 0.4 percentage points in the third quarter, to 25.02 per cent. Jesus Gallego-Garcia, an international coordinator of the General Workers Union, talks to Al Jazeera from Madrid about the economic crisis.

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In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two biggest pre-Columbian civilizations, mine a mountain made of silver, mishandle their economy, and lose it all by the mid-1700s. Come along for the roller coaster ride with Charles I (he was also Charles V), Philip II, Atahualpa, Moctezuma, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro as Spain rises and falls, and takes two empires and China down with them.
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Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destin...

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism.
While most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, some locals have been exasperated by the crowds of tourists.
In the first two months of this year, the number of holidaymakers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015.
Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year. ABTA, the United Kingdom's largest travel association and Iberia's main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.
That's broadly seen as good news for the two Iberian economies, which nosedived during Europe's recent financial crisis - but not everyone is cheering.
With the boom showing no signs of slowing and the summer vacation season approaching, some locals are fed up with throngs of tourists clogging the narrow streets of the peninsula's centuries-old cities and crowding its celebrated beaches.
In Palma, capital of the popular Spanish island of Mallorca, graffiti in English appeared on city walls last month saying, "tourist you are the terrorist" and "tourist go home."
In Barcelona, complaints about overcrowding have grown so much that residents elected a mayor last year who is making good on promises to put a brake on new hotel construction and is exchanging ideas with New York City officials on how to cope with the crush.
Tourism analysts say security concerns are helping drive business toward the western Mediterranean areas and away from Europeans' other traditional summer hotspots, especially Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
Turkey's visitor count in April was down nearly 30 percent compared to a year earlier, the tourism ministry said Friday.
Spain, Europe's most popular destination after France, hosted 68.1 million tourists last year - almost 5 percent up on the previous year - with the United Kingdom, France and Germany sending most visitors.
The tourist trade brought in 67.4 billion euros (75.3 billion US dollars) in 2015, the national statistics agency said.
In the first three months of this year, tourism created almost 89,000 new Spanish jobs.
In a country with 20 percent unemployment, that's a welcome development - but some say the surge has to be better managed.
"We are not going to be like Venice, where neighbours and locals have to leave the city while tourists invade it. What must we do?" asks Juan Itxaso, head of the Sagrada Familia neighbours' association in Barcelona.
The Catalan capital of 1.6 million people received 4.2 million tourists in 2005. Last year, that number reached 7 million, triggering alarm.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau is determined to find a balance.
Her administration has imposed a moratorium on new hotel accommodation and is mulling the introduction of a "tourist tax" on visitors, with revenue being spent on other sectors in order to spread the benefits.
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(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism.
While most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, some locals have been exasperated by the crowds of tourists.
In the first two months of this year, the number of holidaymakers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015.
Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year. ABTA, the United Kingdom's largest travel association and Iberia's main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.
That's broadly seen as good news for the two Iberian economies, which nosedived during Europe's recent financial crisis - but not everyone is cheering.
With the boom showing no signs of slowing and the summer vacation season approaching, some locals are fed up with throngs of tourists clogging the narrow streets of the peninsula's centuries-old cities and crowding its celebrated beaches.
In Palma, capital of the popular Spanish island of Mallorca, graffiti in English appeared on city walls last month saying, "tourist you are the terrorist" and "tourist go home."
In Barcelona, complaints about overcrowding have grown so much that residents elected a mayor last year who is making good on promises to put a brake on new hotel construction and is exchanging ideas with New York City officials on how to cope with the crush.
Tourism analysts say security concerns are helping drive business toward the western Mediterranean areas and away from Europeans' other traditional summer hotspots, especially Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
Turkey's visitor count in April was down nearly 30 percent compared to a year earlier, the tourism ministry said Friday.
Spain, Europe's most popular destination after France, hosted 68.1 million tourists last year - almost 5 percent up on the previous year - with the United Kingdom, France and Germany sending most visitors.
The tourist trade brought in 67.4 billion euros (75.3 billion US dollars) in 2015, the national statistics agency said.
In the first three months of this year, tourism created almost 89,000 new Spanish jobs.
In a country with 20 percent unemployment, that's a welcome development - but some say the surge has to be better managed.
"We are not going to be like Venice, where neighbours and locals have to leave the city while tourists invade it. What must we do?" asks Juan Itxaso, head of the Sagrada Familia neighbours' association in Barcelona.
The Catalan capital of 1.6 million people received 4.2 million tourists in 2005. Last year, that number reached 7 million, triggering alarm.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau is determined to find a balance.
Her administration has imposed a moratorium on new hotel accommodation and is mulling the introduction of a "tourist tax" on visitors, with revenue being spent on other sectors in order to spread the benefits.
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1. Wide of people gathered outside Spanish parliament
2. Protesters standing in front of police fence, with police cars in background
3. Close of woman walking with tablet computer
4. Mid of protesters in front of fence
5. Cameraman filming police forces through fence
6. Various of protesters standing in front of police forces with a fence separating the two
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) RosarioPerez, Protester:
"There will be some running, there will be some beating, there will be people reorganising their groups, there will be containers in flames. I just hope I can run enough. But we have to tolerate (it)."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Martin, Protester:
"I am bored of surrounding the parliament and then going back home, I feel like this whole situation should just blow up, otherwise this is just boredom. This country still surprises me, how come it has not blown up yet? This is unacceptable."
9. Wide of people outside parliament
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Protesters gathered outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid on Thursday, as the country's National Statistics Institute announced that more than 6 (m) million Spaniards are unemployed for the first time ever.
Spain's jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the National Statistics Institute said.
On Thursday, 1,400 police were deployed around Parliament and the building was totally cordoned off ahead of an evening demonstration.
Parliament cancelled its session for the day but blamed reasons other than the rally.
Spain has been in recession for much of the past four years as it struggles to deal with the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector in 2008.
The agency said the number of people unemployed rose by 237,400 people in the first three months of the year, a 1.1 percent increase from the previous quarter.
In the previous decade the country's economy was thriving, generating (m) millions of jobs.
The government's handling of the crisis has sparked almost daily protests.
Several previous rallies close to Parliament have ended in clashes with police.
The InteriorMinistry said police arrested four people and confiscated material they believe was to be used to start fires at bank offices in the city.
The ministry claims violent, anti-establishment groups are behind the rally.
Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy has acknowledged that 2013 will be a bad year but insists that it would have been worse without the reforms.
The International Monetary Fund indicated last week that Spain's economy will contract by 1.6 percent this year.
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SHOTLIST
AP TELEVISION
1. Wide of people gathered outside Spanish parliament
2. Protesters standing in front of police fence, with police cars in background
3. Close of woman walking with tablet computer
4. Mid of protesters in front of fence
5. Cameraman filming police forces through fence
6. Various of protesters standing in front of police forces with a fence separating the two
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) RosarioPerez, Protester:
"There will be some running, there will be some beating, there will be people reorganising their groups, there will be containers in flames. I just hope I can run enough. But we have to tolerate (it)."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Martin, Protester:
"I am bored of surrounding the parliament and then going back home, I feel like this whole situation should just blow up, otherwise this is just boredom. This country still surprises me, how come it has not blown up yet? This is unacceptable."
9. Wide of people outside parliament
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Protesters gathered outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid on Thursday, as the country's National Statistics Institute announced that more than 6 (m) million Spaniards are unemployed for the first time ever.
Spain's jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the National Statistics Institute said.
On Thursday, 1,400 police were deployed around Parliament and the building was totally cordoned off ahead of an evening demonstration.
Parliament cancelled its session for the day but blamed reasons other than the rally.
Spain has been in recession for much of the past four years as it struggles to deal with the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector in 2008.
The agency said the number of people unemployed rose by 237,400 people in the first three months of the year, a 1.1 percent increase from the previous quarter.
In the previous decade the country's economy was thriving, generating (m) millions of jobs.
The government's handling of the crisis has sparked almost daily protests.
Several previous rallies close to Parliament have ended in clashes with police.
The InteriorMinistry said police arrested four people and confiscated material they believe was to be used to start fires at bank offices in the city.
The ministry claims violent, anti-establishment groups are behind the rally.
Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy has acknowledged that 2013 will be a bad year but insists that it would have been worse without the reforms.
The International Monetary Fund indicated last week that Spain's economy will contract by 1.6 percent this year.
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Costa Brava Vacation Travel Video Guide • Great Destinations

The Costa Brava, the ‘wild coast’ is the coast of Catalonia, which, with its yearly 50 million visitors, is one of Europe’s largest holiday paradises. The mild, Mediterranean climate, the crystal clear water, the mysterious, rocky bays, the long, sandy beaches, the southern flora, the wonders of the Spanish and Catalonian cuisine, the historical monuments and artistic values invite more and more visitors each year. Such artists were living and creating here as Salvador Dali, AntonGaudi, Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Joan Miro. Cadeques is a city of arts, an untouched fishing village, which also has one of Europe’s largest artistic collections. Figueras is mostly known for its Dali museum. They say that once they kept the Holy Grail in the fort above the picturesque San Pere de Rodes monaster...

Barcelona, Spain Travel Guide - Must-See Attractions

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Barcelona is the capital of Catolonia and the second largest city in Spain. Barcelona is today one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair/exhibitions and cultural-sports centres, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of theworld's major global cities.
The most important places to visit in Barcelona are: La Sagrada Familia (This was the largest project by Antoni Gaudi. The construction of this world famous church began in 1882 and is still ongoing), Casa Mila (also known as La Pedrera, it was architected by the great Antoni Gaudi. The unusual rooftop can be seen on many postcards from Barcelona), La Rambla (probably the most famous area of Barcelona and very ...

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Catalonia, Spain - Sustainable Tourism - Unravel Travel TV

Catalonia has countless rural tourism options, with something for everyone. You will find Catalonia's most rural spots in a careful selection of very special rural accommodation, where authenticity and friendliness are among the most outstanding features. These rural tourism establishments are classified by ears of wheat, a new category comparable to the stars used for hotels. Each ears-of-wheat category establishes a set of features taking account of the specific characteristics of the building, its rooms, furniture and outdoor spaces, not forgetting the services offered to guests and the activities available in the area. Country homes, farmhouses and agro-tourism establishments in isolated rural areas or small villages. Individual accommodation or accommodation shared with the owners and...

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A walking tour around Barcelona, the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain.
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The film begins in the early morning and progresses to the small hours of the night, showing daily life around Barcelona.
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A Perfect Day in Barcelona - Travel Guide

What makes for the perfect day in Barcelona? That is a tough one...but Brian & Ivette think they are up to the task. They take you on a private tour through one of their favorite cities and include helpful tips to get the most out of your next trip to the amazing city, regardless of how much time you have to spend there. Follow them as they show you the perfect day in Barcelona.
Como podrías pasar el día perfecto en Barcelona? Ahhh, es una pregunta difícil de contestar... pero Brian e Ivette creen que pueden ayudarte. Ellos te van a dar un tour privado de una de sus ciudades favoritas, Barcelona, y te enseñarán como puedes maximizar tu tiempo en esta ciudad sin importar cuanto tiempo vas a estar allí. Síguelos y ellos te enseñarán como pasarte un día perfecto en Barcelona!
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Costa Brava Vacation Travel Video Guide • Great Destinations

The Costa Brava, the ‘wild coast’ is the coast of Catalonia, which, with its yearly 50 million visitors, is one of Europe’s largest holiday paradises. The mild,...

The Costa Brava, the ‘wild coast’ is the coast of Catalonia, which, with its yearly 50 million visitors, is one of Europe’s largest holiday paradises. The mild, Mediterranean climate, the crystal clear water, the mysterious, rocky bays, the long, sandy beaches, the southern flora, the wonders of the Spanish and Catalonian cuisine, the historical monuments and artistic values invite more and more visitors each year. Such artists were living and creating here as Salvador Dali, AntonGaudi, Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Joan Miro. Cadeques is a city of arts, an untouched fishing village, which also has one of Europe’s largest artistic collections. Figueras is mostly known for its Dali museum. They say that once they kept the Holy Grail in the fort above the picturesque San Pere de Rodes monastery. Basalu, which is famous of its stone bridge, is a travel to the Middle Ages. Empuriabrava, with its canals and lagoons is the Venice of Costa Brava. Girona’s old, labyrinth-like city core is one of the most beautiful ones in Spain. Lloret de Mar is inviting the visitor with the promise of the Mediterranean night, being the center of Europe’s beach discos. Tossa de Mar is the most beautiful place of the whole coast, where the bastions of the old fort stand guard over the magnificent beach. Not even 100 kilometers from Costa Brava there is the Catalonian capital, the city of Gaudi, the ‘stage for the zest of life’, one of Europe’s most beautiful and livable cities, Barcelona
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The Costa Brava, the ‘wild coast’ is the coast of Catalonia, which, with its yearly 50 million visitors, is one of Europe’s largest holiday paradises. The mild, Mediterranean climate, the crystal clear water, the mysterious, rocky bays, the long, sandy beaches, the southern flora, the wonders of the Spanish and Catalonian cuisine, the historical monuments and artistic values invite more and more visitors each year. Such artists were living and creating here as Salvador Dali, AntonGaudi, Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Joan Miro. Cadeques is a city of arts, an untouched fishing village, which also has one of Europe’s largest artistic collections. Figueras is mostly known for its Dali museum. They say that once they kept the Holy Grail in the fort above the picturesque San Pere de Rodes monastery. Basalu, which is famous of its stone bridge, is a travel to the Middle Ages. Empuriabrava, with its canals and lagoons is the Venice of Costa Brava. Girona’s old, labyrinth-like city core is one of the most beautiful ones in Spain. Lloret de Mar is inviting the visitor with the promise of the Mediterranean night, being the center of Europe’s beach discos. Tossa de Mar is the most beautiful place of the whole coast, where the bastions of the old fort stand guard over the magnificent beach. Not even 100 kilometers from Costa Brava there is the Catalonian capital, the city of Gaudi, the ‘stage for the zest of life’, one of Europe’s most beautiful and livable cities, Barcelona
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Barcelona, Spain Travel Guide - Must-See Attractions

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Barcelona is the capital of Catolonia and the second largest city in Spain. Barcelona is today one of the world's leading tourist, eco...

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Barcelona is the capital of Catolonia and the second largest city in Spain. Barcelona is today one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair/exhibitions and cultural-sports centres, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of theworld's major global cities.
The most important places to visit in Barcelona are: La Sagrada Familia (This was the largest project by Antoni Gaudi. The construction of this world famous church began in 1882 and is still ongoing), Casa Mila (also known as La Pedrera, it was architected by the great Antoni Gaudi. The unusual rooftop can be seen on many postcards from Barcelona), La Rambla (probably the most famous area of Barcelona and very popular amongst tourists. Don't forget to appreciate the history while watching street performers), Gothic Quarter (it the center of Barcelona's Old City. Amidst the buildings from medieval times, you will feel transported back in time), La Boqueria (a colorful market where you will find both locals and visitors. Besides the freshness of produce, presentation is extremely eye catching), Plaza de Espana (it is a grand, massive square in the middle of Barcelona. The square was built back in 1920 for the international exhibition), Parc Guell (Barcelona has many great landmarks designed by the world renowned architect, Antoni Gaudi. One of them is the unique Parc Guell) and many more.
This video offers a lot of tips to help you plan the perfect vacation. If you want to save time and money, the most important Barcelona travel tip is to compare prices before booking a hotel room or a flight. You can do this for free on http://bookinghunter.com, a site that searches through hundreds of other travel websites in real time for the best travel deals available.

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Barcelona is the capital of Catolonia and the second largest city in Spain. Barcelona is today one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair/exhibitions and cultural-sports centres, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of theworld's major global cities.
The most important places to visit in Barcelona are: La Sagrada Familia (This was the largest project by Antoni Gaudi. The construction of this world famous church began in 1882 and is still ongoing), Casa Mila (also known as La Pedrera, it was architected by the great Antoni Gaudi. The unusual rooftop can be seen on many postcards from Barcelona), La Rambla (probably the most famous area of Barcelona and very popular amongst tourists. Don't forget to appreciate the history while watching street performers), Gothic Quarter (it the center of Barcelona's Old City. Amidst the buildings from medieval times, you will feel transported back in time), La Boqueria (a colorful market where you will find both locals and visitors. Besides the freshness of produce, presentation is extremely eye catching), Plaza de Espana (it is a grand, massive square in the middle of Barcelona. The square was built back in 1920 for the international exhibition), Parc Guell (Barcelona has many great landmarks designed by the world renowned architect, Antoni Gaudi. One of them is the unique Parc Guell) and many more.
This video offers a lot of tips to help you plan the perfect vacation. If you want to save time and money, the most important Barcelona travel tip is to compare prices before booking a hotel room or a flight. You can do this for free on http://bookinghunter.com, a site that searches through hundreds of other travel websites in real time for the best travel deals available.

Catalonia, Spain - Sustainable Tourism - Unravel Travel TV

Catalonia has countless rural tourism options, with something for everyone. You will find Catalonia's most rural spots in a careful selection of very special ru...

Catalonia has countless rural tourism options, with something for everyone. You will find Catalonia's most rural spots in a careful selection of very special rural accommodation, where authenticity and friendliness are among the most outstanding features. These rural tourism establishments are classified by ears of wheat, a new category comparable to the stars used for hotels. Each ears-of-wheat category establishes a set of features taking account of the specific characteristics of the building, its rooms, furniture and outdoor spaces, not forgetting the services offered to guests and the activities available in the area. Country homes, farmhouses and agro-tourism establishments in isolated rural areas or small villages. Individual accommodation or accommodation shared with the owners and other guests, allowing us to enjoy a wide range of options in our free time and to discover other ways of life connected with nature and the countryside.
Catalonia offers numerous natural areas that are ideal for leisure, adventure and nature watching activities, all while enjoying its varied landscape. From the highest peaks of the Pyrenees to the most well-hidden coves of the Mediterranean, through the valleys of inland Catalonia and the natural sites of the Ebro delta and the Lands of Lleida, active & nature tourism offers a variety of options within everyone's reach. The mild climate allows to take part in various activities throughout the year, such as hiking on an extensive network of long and short routes, cycling through the Greenways and mountain biking in one of Catalonia's 18 MTB centres. You can also interpret nature, observing flora and fauna, exploring the seabed or walking in one of Catalonia's nature spaces.
The secret of Catalan cuisine is in the quality and uniqueness of the products used, plus the combination of what is offered by the land and the sea. Prades potatoes, wines from the Penedès, the ganxet bean, Siurana olive oil, calçots (a type of tender onion) from Valls, rice from the Ebro Delta, sausage from Vic and the cheeses of Alt Urgell, to name but a few of the Catalan products with certification of origin and agri-food quality. Catalan cuisine is internationally renowned for achieving a difficult balance between innovation and tradition, through the work of chefs like JoanRoca, Carme Ruscalleda, Santi Santamaria and, above all, Ferran Adrià, who from the kitchens of El Bulli restaurant revolutionised the world gastronomy scene. Behind the cuisine of Catalonia today lies the story of a country, a land, a way of being and of doing things. That is why it has been nominated for recognition by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity. In addition to its many restaurants of all kinds, Catalonia has a network of public markets where product quality is paramount, and a number of groups of restauranteurs dedicated to promoting the cuisine typical of each area, working with the two terms of territory and product. The biodiversity of Catalonia's landscape also allows you to take part in adventure activities like rafting and hydrospeeding on several rivers, sea kayaking, canyoning, hang gliding, paragliding, ballooning, skydiving, horseback riding and climbing.
The Industrial Revolution in the Iberian Peninsula began in Catalonia, which became one of the most industrially dynamic regions of Europe. The new steam-based industry brought changes to manufacturing processes, transportation systems and even to the way workers lived. These changes can be seen in numerous examples of industrial heritage conserved in Catalonia, located around the Llobregat and Ter rivers. In Catalonia, the modernist art movement is closely associated with the Industrial Revolution. The modernist imprint is evident in factories like the VaporVell de Sants in Barcelona (one of the first in Catalonia), the Anís del Mono factory in Badalona, and the FreixenetCava winery in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia. One of the most characteristic elements of Catalan industrial heritage are its textile factory colonies, located in rural areas by the river. Some examples are ColoniaGüell in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, the Viladomiu colonies in Gironella, and the Borgonyà colony in Sant Vicenç de Torelló. These small villages have all the services necessary for the workers, dedicated exclusively to the factory and their families. Throughout Catalonia there are examples of this industrial heritage, and of factories still in operation, in the fields of food, design, cars, wine, etc. More information is available from the Catalan Industrial TourismNetwork or from the Museum of Science and Technology in Terrassa.
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Catalonia has countless rural tourism options, with something for everyone. You will find Catalonia's most rural spots in a careful selection of very special rural accommodation, where authenticity and friendliness are among the most outstanding features. These rural tourism establishments are classified by ears of wheat, a new category comparable to the stars used for hotels. Each ears-of-wheat category establishes a set of features taking account of the specific characteristics of the building, its rooms, furniture and outdoor spaces, not forgetting the services offered to guests and the activities available in the area. Country homes, farmhouses and agro-tourism establishments in isolated rural areas or small villages. Individual accommodation or accommodation shared with the owners and other guests, allowing us to enjoy a wide range of options in our free time and to discover other ways of life connected with nature and the countryside.
Catalonia offers numerous natural areas that are ideal for leisure, adventure and nature watching activities, all while enjoying its varied landscape. From the highest peaks of the Pyrenees to the most well-hidden coves of the Mediterranean, through the valleys of inland Catalonia and the natural sites of the Ebro delta and the Lands of Lleida, active & nature tourism offers a variety of options within everyone's reach. The mild climate allows to take part in various activities throughout the year, such as hiking on an extensive network of long and short routes, cycling through the Greenways and mountain biking in one of Catalonia's 18 MTB centres. You can also interpret nature, observing flora and fauna, exploring the seabed or walking in one of Catalonia's nature spaces.
The secret of Catalan cuisine is in the quality and uniqueness of the products used, plus the combination of what is offered by the land and the sea. Prades potatoes, wines from the Penedès, the ganxet bean, Siurana olive oil, calçots (a type of tender onion) from Valls, rice from the Ebro Delta, sausage from Vic and the cheeses of Alt Urgell, to name but a few of the Catalan products with certification of origin and agri-food quality. Catalan cuisine is internationally renowned for achieving a difficult balance between innovation and tradition, through the work of chefs like JoanRoca, Carme Ruscalleda, Santi Santamaria and, above all, Ferran Adrià, who from the kitchens of El Bulli restaurant revolutionised the world gastronomy scene. Behind the cuisine of Catalonia today lies the story of a country, a land, a way of being and of doing things. That is why it has been nominated for recognition by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity. In addition to its many restaurants of all kinds, Catalonia has a network of public markets where product quality is paramount, and a number of groups of restauranteurs dedicated to promoting the cuisine typical of each area, working with the two terms of territory and product. The biodiversity of Catalonia's landscape also allows you to take part in adventure activities like rafting and hydrospeeding on several rivers, sea kayaking, canyoning, hang gliding, paragliding, ballooning, skydiving, horseback riding and climbing.
The Industrial Revolution in the Iberian Peninsula began in Catalonia, which became one of the most industrially dynamic regions of Europe. The new steam-based industry brought changes to manufacturing processes, transportation systems and even to the way workers lived. These changes can be seen in numerous examples of industrial heritage conserved in Catalonia, located around the Llobregat and Ter rivers. In Catalonia, the modernist art movement is closely associated with the Industrial Revolution. The modernist imprint is evident in factories like the VaporVell de Sants in Barcelona (one of the first in Catalonia), the Anís del Mono factory in Badalona, and the FreixenetCava winery in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia. One of the most characteristic elements of Catalan industrial heritage are its textile factory colonies, located in rural areas by the river. Some examples are ColoniaGüell in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, the Viladomiu colonies in Gironella, and the Borgonyà colony in Sant Vicenç de Torelló. These small villages have all the services necessary for the workers, dedicated exclusively to the factory and their families. Throughout Catalonia there are examples of this industrial heritage, and of factories still in operation, in the fields of food, design, cars, wine, etc. More information is available from the Catalan Industrial TourismNetwork or from the Museum of Science and Technology in Terrassa.
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The film begins in the early morning and progresses to the small hours of the night, showing daily life around Barcelona.
For those planning on visiting, those who’d like to visit but cannot or those who might be nostalgic and want to re-live their past visits / life there, hopefully this film shall satisfy, time and time again.
Filmed during January 2013.
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A walking tour around Barcelona, the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain.
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The film begins in the early morning and progresses to the small hours of the night, showing daily life around Barcelona.
For those planning on visiting, those who’d like to visit but cannot or those who might be nostalgic and want to re-live their past visits / life there, hopefully this film shall satisfy, time and time again.
Filmed during January 2013.
For more information on Barcelona:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona
Google Maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Barcelona,+Spain/@41.3947688,2.078728,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x12a49816718e30e5:0x44b0fb3d4f47660a!8m2!3d41.3850639!4d2.1734035?hl=en
Filming Equipment:
Cameras:
- Sony HDR-AX2000
- Sony Nex-VG10
Other Accessories:
- Glidecam HD-2000 hand-held camera stabilization.
- Sennheiser K6 + ME66 shotgun microphone.
- Manfrotto 701HDV pro fluid video mini head / 055XB tripod.

A Perfect Day in Barcelona - Travel Guide

What makes for the perfect day in Barcelona? That is a tough one...but Brian & Ivette think they are up to the task. They take you on a private tour through one...

What makes for the perfect day in Barcelona? That is a tough one...but Brian & Ivette think they are up to the task. They take you on a private tour through one of their favorite cities and include helpful tips to get the most out of your next trip to the amazing city, regardless of how much time you have to spend there. Follow them as they show you the perfect day in Barcelona.
Como podrías pasar el día perfecto en Barcelona? Ahhh, es una pregunta difícil de contestar... pero Brian e Ivette creen que pueden ayudarte. Ellos te van a dar un tour privado de una de sus ciudades favoritas, Barcelona, y te enseñarán como puedes maximizar tu tiempo en esta ciudad sin importar cuanto tiempo vas a estar allí. Síguelos y ellos te enseñarán como pasarte un día perfecto en Barcelona!
If you have any questions about Barcelona please leave them in the comments below and they will be glad to respond :)
Si tienes preguntas acerca de Barcelona, déjanos un comentario abajo y te responderemos, es un placer poder ayudarte :)
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What makes for the perfect day in Barcelona? That is a tough one...but Brian & Ivette think they are up to the task. They take you on a private tour through one of their favorite cities and include helpful tips to get the most out of your next trip to the amazing city, regardless of how much time you have to spend there. Follow them as they show you the perfect day in Barcelona.
Como podrías pasar el día perfecto en Barcelona? Ahhh, es una pregunta difícil de contestar... pero Brian e Ivette creen que pueden ayudarte. Ellos te van a dar un tour privado de una de sus ciudades favoritas, Barcelona, y te enseñarán como puedes maximizar tu tiempo en esta ciudad sin importar cuanto tiempo vas a estar allí. Síguelos y ellos te enseñarán como pasarte un día perfecto en Barcelona!
If you have any questions about Barcelona please leave them in the comments below and they will be glad to respond :)
Si tienes preguntas acerca de Barcelona, déjanos un comentario abajo y te responderemos, es un placer poder ayudarte :)
All the activities taken in Barcelona were booked on GetYourGuide (http://bit.ly/1Rq8xpR). Visit the GetYourGuide website, you can book tours and activities all over the world! If you want to see more of the GetYourGuide adventures, subscribe to their channel:
http://bit.ly/1JNi2dM
Todas las actividades en Barcelona fueron reservadas a través de GetYourGuide (http://bit.ly/1Rq8xpR). Visita el sitio web de GetYourGuide donde puedes reservar tours y actividades en el mundo entero! Si quieres ver mas aventuras de GetYourGuide , subscríbete a su canal:
http://bit.ly/1JNi2dM
Sagrada Skip the Line link - http://www.getyourguide.com/barcelona-l45/sagrada-familia-skip-the-line-ticket-t50027/
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Catalonia Travel Guide

Travel video about destination Catalonia.
Sights & Attractions in Catalonia.
The Catalonia region, in northeastern Spain, is known for the lively beach resorts ...

Travel video about destination Catalonia.
Sights & Attractions in Catalonia.
The Catalonia region, in northeastern Spain, is known for the lively beach resorts of Costa Brava, the Pyrenees mountains and as home to surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Barcelona, the regional capital, has an ancient Gothic Quarter, La Rambla pedestrian mall and several beaches. Antoni Gaudí’s distinctive architecture can be seen at the Sagrada Família basilica and in the colorful mosaics of Park Güell.
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The Catalonia region, in northeastern Spain, is known for the lively beach resorts of Costa Brava, the Pyrenees mountains and as home to surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Barcelona, the regional capital, has an ancient Gothic Quarter, La Rambla pedestrian mall and several beaches. Antoni Gaudí’s distinctive architecture can be seen at the Sagrada Família basilica and in the colorful mosaics of Park Güell.
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Catalan economy grew by 1.5% in 2014, the best year since 2007

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The GDP of Catalonia increased by 1.5% during 2014, according to the definitive figures released by the CatalanStatisticsInstitute (Idescat) on Friday. However, on the same day, the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) published its economic growth figures for 2014 and announced that the Catalan economy had grown by 1.4% last year, the same rate as Spain. In any case, both figures are quite positive after many years of economic crisis and slowdown. In fact, 2014 has been the best year since 2007, when the Catalan economy grew by 3.2% according to the Idescat. The final figure for 2014 is higher than the provisional 1.2% growth rate previously announced. FollowingEuropean Union instructions, the calculations for last year include R&D activities, as well as ...

Saudi tourists visiting Barcelona prefer to stay in Ciutat Vella while Japanese prefer to stay in l’Eixample; average spending by Chinese visitors is 429 € / day while a Swedish tourist just spends 94 € / day; many tourists arriving by cruise ship to the Catalan capital do not visit the city. We know these facts thanks to a big data study which analyzes the mobile phone data of tourists and matches it with the data of credit-card payments made by foreigners.
Local authorities, year after year, are publishing statistics of tourists, and their data may change with big data. If we consider the latest reports published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received in 2015 just over 68 million international tourists. During the same period, a total of 8.3 million tourists stayed...

Spain's economy expanded by 0.7 percent between October and December from the previous three months, the National Statistics Institute has confirmed in its final growth assessment.
For all of 2016, the economy grew by 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015. It was the third straight year of expansion since the country came out of recession.
Consumer spending was helped by a recovery in the job market while exports hit a new high last year.
The number of people signing on to pay social security - a…
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Discussing Spain's economic crisis

One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work as the economic crisis tightens its grip on the country. The NationalStatisticsInstitute said Friday that 85,000 more people joined the ranks of the unemployed between July and September, raising the total to 5.78m. The figures brought the country's unemployment rate up by around 0.4 percentage points in the third quarter, to 25.02 per cent. Jesus Gallego-Garcia, an international coordinator of the General Workers Union, talks to Al Jazeera from Madrid about the economic crisis.

Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism.
While most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, some locals have been exasperated by the crowds of tourists.
In the first two months of this year, the number of holidaymakers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015.
Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year. ABTA, the United Kingdom's largest travel association and Iberia's main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.
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published: 16 Nov 2016

Anti-austerity protest as unemployment hits record high

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1. Wide of people gathered outside Spanish parliament
2. Protesters standing in front of police fence, with police cars in background
3. Close of woman walking with tablet computer
4. Mid of protesters in front of fence
5. Cameraman filming police forces through fence
6. Various of protesters standing in front of police forces with a fence separating the two
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) RosarioPerez, Protester:
"There will be some running, there will be some beating, there will be people reorganising their groups, there will be containers in flames. I just hope I can run enough. But we have to tolerate (it)."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Martin, Protester:
"I am bored of surrounding the parliament and then going back home, I feel like this whole situation shou...

http://www.catalannewsagency.com
The GDP of Catalonia increased by 1.5% during 2014, according to the definitive figures released by the CatalanStatisticsInstitute (Idescat) on Friday. However, on the same day, the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) published its economic growth figures for 2014 and announced that the Catalan economy had grown by 1.4% last year, the same rate as Spain. In any case, both figures are quite positive after many years of economic crisis and slowdown. In fact, 2014 has been the best year since 2007, when the Catalan economy grew by 3.2% according to the Idescat. The final figure for 2014 is higher than the provisional 1.2% growth rate previously announced. FollowingEuropean Union instructions, the calculations for last year include R&D activities, as well as prostitution and trafficking of drugs and tobacco.
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/business/item/catalan-economy-grew-by-1-5-in-2014-the-best-year-since-2007

http://www.catalannewsagency.com
The GDP of Catalonia increased by 1.5% during 2014, according to the definitive figures released by the CatalanStatisticsInstitute (Idescat) on Friday. However, on the same day, the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) published its economic growth figures for 2014 and announced that the Catalan economy had grown by 1.4% last year, the same rate as Spain. In any case, both figures are quite positive after many years of economic crisis and slowdown. In fact, 2014 has been the best year since 2007, when the Catalan economy grew by 3.2% according to the Idescat. The final figure for 2014 is higher than the provisional 1.2% growth rate previously announced. FollowingEuropean Union instructions, the calculations for last year include R&D activities, as well as prostitution and trafficking of drugs and tobacco.
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/business/item/catalan-economy-grew-by-1-5-in-2014-the-best-year-since-2007

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How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" CatalanYou Can Learn Piano From Basic to Advance by Watching These MusicClips
Fum, Fum, Fum (/ˌfʊm ˌfʊm ˈfʊm/ FUUM FUUM FUUM; Catalan: [ˈfum ˈfum ˈfum]) is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.
It is thought to have originated in the 16th or 17th century. The word "fum" means smoke in Catalan, and it may simply refer to the smoke rising from a chimney as seen from afar, or, as indicated in the New Oxford Book of Carols, "may imitate the sound of a drum (or perhaps the strumming of a guitar)". It is not typical of Spanish tradition but rather of Catalan tradition. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) defines "fum" as "to play upon a fiddle," quoting Ben Jonson, "Follow me, and fum as you go."
One source, the Musical Heritage Society insert 3428 (Christmas Songs From Around the World), indicates that "fum, fum, fum" is an onomatopoeia imitating the noise of a rocking cradle, and that the rhythms come from the Sardana, a courtly dance which originated in Catalonia and the Provence.
Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories.
Catalan evolved from Vulgar Latin around the eastern Pyrenees in the 9th century. During the Low Middle Ages it saw a golden age as the literary and dominant language of the Crown of Aragon, and was widely used all over the Mediterranean. The union of Aragon with the other territories of Spain in 1479 marked the start of the decline of the language. In 1659 Spain ceded Northern Catalonia to France, and Catalan was banned in both states in the early 18th century. 19th-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, which culminated in the 1913 orthographic standardization, and the officialization of the language during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–39). However, the Francoist dictatorship (1939–75) banned the language again.
Since the Spanish transition to democracy (1975–1982), Catalan has been recognized as an official language, language of education, and language of mass media, all of which have contributed to its increased prestige. There is no parallel in Europe of such a large, bilingual, non-state speech community.
Catalan dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation. The terms "Catalan" and "Valencian" (respectively used in Catalonia and the Valencian Community) are two different names for the same language. There are two institutions regulating two standard varieties, the Institute of Catalan Studies in Catalonia and the Valencian Academy of the Language in Valencia. The two standards are based on the same orthographical norms and the differences are similar to those between British and American English.
Catalan shares many traits with its neighboring Romance languages. However, despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Peninsula, Catalan differs more from Iberian Romance (such as Spanish and Portuguese) in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar than from Gallo-Romance (Occitan, French, Gallo-Italic languages, etc.).These similarities are most notable with Occitan.
Catalan has an inflectional grammar, with two genders (masculine, feminine), and two numbers (singular, plural). Pronouns are also inflected for case, animacy[citation needed] and politeness, and can be combined in very complex ways. Verbs are split in several paradigms and are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and gender. In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters, in contrast with many other Romance languages

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Piano Tutorial by Ramin Yousefi
How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" CatalanYou Can Learn Piano From Basic to Advance by Watching These MusicClips
Fum, Fum, Fum (/ˌfʊm ˌfʊm ˈfʊm/ FUUM FUUM FUUM; Catalan: [ˈfum ˈfum ˈfum]) is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.
It is thought to have originated in the 16th or 17th century. The word "fum" means smoke in Catalan, and it may simply refer to the smoke rising from a chimney as seen from afar, or, as indicated in the New Oxford Book of Carols, "may imitate the sound of a drum (or perhaps the strumming of a guitar)". It is not typical of Spanish tradition but rather of Catalan tradition. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) defines "fum" as "to play upon a fiddle," quoting Ben Jonson, "Follow me, and fum as you go."
One source, the Musical Heritage Society insert 3428 (Christmas Songs From Around the World), indicates that "fum, fum, fum" is an onomatopoeia imitating the noise of a rocking cradle, and that the rhythms come from the Sardana, a courtly dance which originated in Catalonia and the Provence.
Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories.
Catalan evolved from Vulgar Latin around the eastern Pyrenees in the 9th century. During the Low Middle Ages it saw a golden age as the literary and dominant language of the Crown of Aragon, and was widely used all over the Mediterranean. The union of Aragon with the other territories of Spain in 1479 marked the start of the decline of the language. In 1659 Spain ceded Northern Catalonia to France, and Catalan was banned in both states in the early 18th century. 19th-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, which culminated in the 1913 orthographic standardization, and the officialization of the language during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–39). However, the Francoist dictatorship (1939–75) banned the language again.
Since the Spanish transition to democracy (1975–1982), Catalan has been recognized as an official language, language of education, and language of mass media, all of which have contributed to its increased prestige. There is no parallel in Europe of such a large, bilingual, non-state speech community.
Catalan dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation. The terms "Catalan" and "Valencian" (respectively used in Catalonia and the Valencian Community) are two different names for the same language. There are two institutions regulating two standard varieties, the Institute of Catalan Studies in Catalonia and the Valencian Academy of the Language in Valencia. The two standards are based on the same orthographical norms and the differences are similar to those between British and American English.
Catalan shares many traits with its neighboring Romance languages. However, despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Peninsula, Catalan differs more from Iberian Romance (such as Spanish and Portuguese) in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar than from Gallo-Romance (Occitan, French, Gallo-Italic languages, etc.).These similarities are most notable with Occitan.
Catalan has an inflectional grammar, with two genders (masculine, feminine), and two numbers (singular, plural). Pronouns are also inflected for case, animacy[citation needed] and politeness, and can be combined in very complex ways. Verbs are split in several paradigms and are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and gender. In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters, in contrast with many other Romance languages

Saudi tourists visiting Barcelona prefer to stay in Ciutat Vella while Japanese prefer to stay in l’Eixample; average spending by Chinese visitors is 429 € / day while a Swedish tourist just spends 94 € / day; many tourists arriving by cruise ship to the Catalan capital do not visit the city. We know these facts thanks to a big data study which analyzes the mobile phone data of tourists and matches it with the data of credit-card payments made by foreigners.
Local authorities, year after year, are publishing statistics of tourists, and their data may change with big data. If we consider the latest reports published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received in 2015 just over 68 million international tourists. During the same period, a total of 8.3 million tourists stayed in Barcelona. Both are record figures but are they real or are these statistics a rough estimate?
CEO of RocaSalvatella and digital marketing expert, who explaines how big data will revolutionize the tourism sector. Are tourist destinations like Barcelona taking advantage of big data to manage better the flow of visitors they receive? What possibilities do we face now with the use of this data?
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Saudi tourists visiting Barcelona prefer to stay in Ciutat Vella while Japanese prefer to stay in l’Eixample; average spending by Chinese visitors is 429 € / day while a Swedish tourist just spends 94 € / day; many tourists arriving by cruise ship to the Catalan capital do not visit the city. We know these facts thanks to a big data study which analyzes the mobile phone data of tourists and matches it with the data of credit-card payments made by foreigners.
Local authorities, year after year, are publishing statistics of tourists, and their data may change with big data. If we consider the latest reports published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received in 2015 just over 68 million international tourists. During the same period, a total of 8.3 million tourists stayed in Barcelona. Both are record figures but are they real or are these statistics a rough estimate?
CEO of RocaSalvatella and digital marketing expert, who explaines how big data will revolutionize the tourism sector. Are tourist destinations like Barcelona taking advantage of big data to manage better the flow of visitors they receive? What possibilities do we face now with the use of this data?
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Spain's economy expanded by 0.7 percent between October and December from the previous three months, the National Statistics Institute has confirmed in its final growth assessment.
For all of 2016, the economy grew by 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015. It was the third straight year of expansion since the country came out of recession.
Consumer spending was helped by a recovery in the job market while exports hit a new high last year.
The number of people signing on to pay social security - a…
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Spain's economy expanded by 0.7 percent between October and December from the previous three months, the National Statistics Institute has confirmed in its final growth assessment.
For all of 2016, the economy grew by 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015. It was the third straight year of expansion since the country came out of recession.
Consumer spending was helped by a recovery in the job market while exports hit a new high last year.
The number of people signing on to pay social security - a…
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One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work as the economic crisis tightens its grip on the country. The NationalStatisticsInstitute said Friday that 85,000 more people joined the ranks of the unemployed between July and September, raising the total to 5.78m. The figures brought the country's unemployment rate up by around 0.4 percentage points in the third quarter, to 25.02 per cent. Jesus Gallego-Garcia, an international coordinator of the General Workers Union, talks to Al Jazeera from Madrid about the economic crisis.

One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work as the economic crisis tightens its grip on the country. The NationalStatisticsInstitute said Friday that 85,000 more people joined the ranks of the unemployed between July and September, raising the total to 5.78m. The figures brought the country's unemployment rate up by around 0.4 percentage points in the third quarter, to 25.02 per cent. Jesus Gallego-Garcia, an international coordinator of the General Workers Union, talks to Al Jazeera from Madrid about the economic crisis.

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In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two biggest pre-Columbian civilizations, mine a mountain made of silver, mishandle their economy, and lose it all by the mid-1700s. Come along for the roller coaster ride with Charles I (he was also Charles V), Philip II, Atahualpa, Moctezuma, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro as Spain rises and falls, and takes two empires and China down with them.
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In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two biggest pre-Columbian civilizations, mine a mountain made of silver, mishandle their economy, and lose it all by the mid-1700s. Come along for the roller coaster ride with Charles I (he was also Charles V), Philip II, Atahualpa, Moctezuma, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro as Spain rises and falls, and takes two empires and China down with them.
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Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destin...

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism.
While most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, some locals have been exasperated by the crowds of tourists.
In the first two months of this year, the number of holidaymakers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015.
Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year. ABTA, the United Kingdom's largest travel association and Iberia's main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.
That's broadly seen as good news for the two Iberian economies, which nosedived during Europe's recent financial crisis - but not everyone is cheering.
With the boom showing no signs of slowing and the summer vacation season approaching, some locals are fed up with throngs of tourists clogging the narrow streets of the peninsula's centuries-old cities and crowding its celebrated beaches.
In Palma, capital of the popular Spanish island of Mallorca, graffiti in English appeared on city walls last month saying, "tourist you are the terrorist" and "tourist go home."
In Barcelona, complaints about overcrowding have grown so much that residents elected a mayor last year who is making good on promises to put a brake on new hotel construction and is exchanging ideas with New York City officials on how to cope with the crush.
Tourism analysts say security concerns are helping drive business toward the western Mediterranean areas and away from Europeans' other traditional summer hotspots, especially Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
Turkey's visitor count in April was down nearly 30 percent compared to a year earlier, the tourism ministry said Friday.
Spain, Europe's most popular destination after France, hosted 68.1 million tourists last year - almost 5 percent up on the previous year - with the United Kingdom, France and Germany sending most visitors.
The tourist trade brought in 67.4 billion euros (75.3 billion US dollars) in 2015, the national statistics agency said.
In the first three months of this year, tourism created almost 89,000 new Spanish jobs.
In a country with 20 percent unemployment, that's a welcome development - but some say the surge has to be better managed.
"We are not going to be like Venice, where neighbours and locals have to leave the city while tourists invade it. What must we do?" asks Juan Itxaso, head of the Sagrada Familia neighbours' association in Barcelona.
The Catalan capital of 1.6 million people received 4.2 million tourists in 2005. Last year, that number reached 7 million, triggering alarm.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau is determined to find a balance.
Her administration has imposed a moratorium on new hotel accommodation and is mulling the introduction of a "tourist tax" on visitors, with revenue being spent on other sectors in order to spread the benefits.
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(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism.
While most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, some locals have been exasperated by the crowds of tourists.
In the first two months of this year, the number of holidaymakers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015.
Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year. ABTA, the United Kingdom's largest travel association and Iberia's main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.
That's broadly seen as good news for the two Iberian economies, which nosedived during Europe's recent financial crisis - but not everyone is cheering.
With the boom showing no signs of slowing and the summer vacation season approaching, some locals are fed up with throngs of tourists clogging the narrow streets of the peninsula's centuries-old cities and crowding its celebrated beaches.
In Palma, capital of the popular Spanish island of Mallorca, graffiti in English appeared on city walls last month saying, "tourist you are the terrorist" and "tourist go home."
In Barcelona, complaints about overcrowding have grown so much that residents elected a mayor last year who is making good on promises to put a brake on new hotel construction and is exchanging ideas with New York City officials on how to cope with the crush.
Tourism analysts say security concerns are helping drive business toward the western Mediterranean areas and away from Europeans' other traditional summer hotspots, especially Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
Turkey's visitor count in April was down nearly 30 percent compared to a year earlier, the tourism ministry said Friday.
Spain, Europe's most popular destination after France, hosted 68.1 million tourists last year - almost 5 percent up on the previous year - with the United Kingdom, France and Germany sending most visitors.
The tourist trade brought in 67.4 billion euros (75.3 billion US dollars) in 2015, the national statistics agency said.
In the first three months of this year, tourism created almost 89,000 new Spanish jobs.
In a country with 20 percent unemployment, that's a welcome development - but some say the surge has to be better managed.
"We are not going to be like Venice, where neighbours and locals have to leave the city while tourists invade it. What must we do?" asks Juan Itxaso, head of the Sagrada Familia neighbours' association in Barcelona.
The Catalan capital of 1.6 million people received 4.2 million tourists in 2005. Last year, that number reached 7 million, triggering alarm.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau is determined to find a balance.
Her administration has imposed a moratorium on new hotel accommodation and is mulling the introduction of a "tourist tax" on visitors, with revenue being spent on other sectors in order to spread the benefits.
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/1dacdb8737fe6d8abfe94a6dcfdfe13a
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SHOTLIST
AP TELEVISION
1. Wide of people gathered outside Spanish parliament
2. Protesters standing in front of police fence, with police cars in background
3. Close of woman walking with tablet computer
4. Mid of protesters in front of fence
5. Cameraman filming police forces through fence
6. Various of protesters standing in front of police forces with a fence separating the two
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) RosarioPerez, Protester:
"There will be some running, there will be some beating, there will be people reorganising their groups, there will be containers in flames. I just hope I can run enough. But we have to tolerate (it)."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Martin, Protester:
"I am bored of surrounding the parliament and then going back home, I feel like this whole situation should just blow up, otherwise this is just boredom. This country still surprises me, how come it has not blown up yet? This is unacceptable."
9. Wide of people outside parliament
STORYLINE
Protesters gathered outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid on Thursday, as the country's National Statistics Institute announced that more than 6 (m) million Spaniards are unemployed for the first time ever.
Spain's jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the National Statistics Institute said.
On Thursday, 1,400 police were deployed around Parliament and the building was totally cordoned off ahead of an evening demonstration.
Parliament cancelled its session for the day but blamed reasons other than the rally.
Spain has been in recession for much of the past four years as it struggles to deal with the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector in 2008.
The agency said the number of people unemployed rose by 237,400 people in the first three months of the year, a 1.1 percent increase from the previous quarter.
In the previous decade the country's economy was thriving, generating (m) millions of jobs.
The government's handling of the crisis has sparked almost daily protests.
Several previous rallies close to Parliament have ended in clashes with police.
The InteriorMinistry said police arrested four people and confiscated material they believe was to be used to start fires at bank offices in the city.
The ministry claims violent, anti-establishment groups are behind the rally.
Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy has acknowledged that 2013 will be a bad year but insists that it would have been worse without the reforms.
The International Monetary Fund indicated last week that Spain's economy will contract by 1.6 percent this year.
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1. Wide of people gathered outside Spanish parliament
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3. Close of woman walking with tablet computer
4. Mid of protesters in front of fence
5. Cameraman filming police forces through fence
6. Various of protesters standing in front of police forces with a fence separating the two
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) RosarioPerez, Protester:
"There will be some running, there will be some beating, there will be people reorganising their groups, there will be containers in flames. I just hope I can run enough. But we have to tolerate (it)."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Martin, Protester:
"I am bored of surrounding the parliament and then going back home, I feel like this whole situation should just blow up, otherwise this is just boredom. This country still surprises me, how come it has not blown up yet? This is unacceptable."
9. Wide of people outside parliament
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Protesters gathered outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid on Thursday, as the country's National Statistics Institute announced that more than 6 (m) million Spaniards are unemployed for the first time ever.
Spain's jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the National Statistics Institute said.
On Thursday, 1,400 police were deployed around Parliament and the building was totally cordoned off ahead of an evening demonstration.
Parliament cancelled its session for the day but blamed reasons other than the rally.
Spain has been in recession for much of the past four years as it struggles to deal with the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector in 2008.
The agency said the number of people unemployed rose by 237,400 people in the first three months of the year, a 1.1 percent increase from the previous quarter.
In the previous decade the country's economy was thriving, generating (m) millions of jobs.
The government's handling of the crisis has sparked almost daily protests.
Several previous rallies close to Parliament have ended in clashes with police.
The InteriorMinistry said police arrested four people and confiscated material they believe was to be used to start fires at bank offices in the city.
The ministry claims violent, anti-establishment groups are behind the rally.
Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy has acknowledged that 2013 will be a bad year but insists that it would have been worse without the reforms.
The International Monetary Fund indicated last week that Spain's economy will contract by 1.6 percent this year.
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Chapter 2d: The Catalan Garden

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published: 05 Feb 2016

Searching for tableaux statistics and Schur expansions part 1

Emily Sergel, RutgersExperimental MathematicsSeminar, November 17, 2016
Abstract: This talk covers joint work with Jim Haglund. It will discuss our search for a new family of inversion statistics on standard Young tableaux. Our motivation is the problem of expanding certain LLT polynomials in terms of the Schur basis. The Schur expansions of certain symmetric functions encode the decompositions of some Sn-modules into irreducible representations. Many symmetric functions appearing in the study of Macdonald polynomials and the module of Diagonal Harmonics can be written as positive sums of LLT polynomials. Hence, finding combinatorial Schur expansions for all LLT polynomials would solve many open problems. For example, it would finally give a combinatorial proof of the Macdonald positivi...

Chapter 2c: The Catalan Garden

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published: 03 Feb 2016

Combinatorics and Geometry to Arithmetic of Circle Packings - Nakamura

Speaker: Kei Nakamura (Rutgers)
Title: Combinatorics and Geometry to Arithmetic of Circle Packings
Abstract: The Koebe-Andreev-Thurston/Schramm theorem assigns a conformally rigid fi-nite circle packing to a convex polyhedron, and then successive inversions yield a conformally rigid infinite circle packing. For example, starting with the tetrahedron, we take a configuration of four pairwise tangent circles and invert successively to obtain the classical Apollonian Circle Packing. The latter, an object of much recent study, is ”arithmetic”, in that there are realizations for which all circles have curvatures in the rational integers. Our aim, in joint work with Alex Kontorovich, is to classify polyhedra with this property and study the integral curvatures of the resulting circle packings. ...

Emily Sergel, RutgersExperimental MathematicsSeminar, November 17, 2016
Abstract: This talk covers joint work with Jim Haglund. It will discuss our search for a new family of inversion statistics on standard Young tableaux. Our motivation is the problem of expanding certain LLT polynomials in terms of the Schur basis. The Schur expansions of certain symmetric functions encode the decompositions of some Sn-modules into irreducible representations. Many symmetric functions appearing in the study of Macdonald polynomials and the module of Diagonal Harmonics can be written as positive sums of LLT polynomials. Hence, finding combinatorial Schur expansions for all LLT polynomials would solve many open problems. For example, it would finally give a combinatorial proof of the Macdonald positivity conjecture. The recent proof of the Shuffle Conjecture gives new tools for studying the special case of unicellular LLT polynomials. I will show how computer experimentation is guiding our (ongoing) search for their Schur expansions and the corresponding inversion statistics.

Emily Sergel, RutgersExperimental MathematicsSeminar, November 17, 2016
Abstract: This talk covers joint work with Jim Haglund. It will discuss our search for a new family of inversion statistics on standard Young tableaux. Our motivation is the problem of expanding certain LLT polynomials in terms of the Schur basis. The Schur expansions of certain symmetric functions encode the decompositions of some Sn-modules into irreducible representations. Many symmetric functions appearing in the study of Macdonald polynomials and the module of Diagonal Harmonics can be written as positive sums of LLT polynomials. Hence, finding combinatorial Schur expansions for all LLT polynomials would solve many open problems. For example, it would finally give a combinatorial proof of the Macdonald positivity conjecture. The recent proof of the Shuffle Conjecture gives new tools for studying the special case of unicellular LLT polynomials. I will show how computer experimentation is guiding our (ongoing) search for their Schur expansions and the corresponding inversion statistics.

Speaker: Kei Nakamura (Rutgers)
Title: Combinatorics and Geometry to Arithmetic of Circle Packings
Abstract: The Koebe-Andreev-Thurston/Schramm theorem assigns a conformally rigid fi-nite circle packing to a convex polyhedron, and then successive inversions yield a conformally rigid infinite circle packing. For example, starting with the tetrahedron, we take a configuration of four pairwise tangent circles and invert successively to obtain the classical Apollonian Circle Packing. The latter, an object of much recent study, is ”arithmetic”, in that there are realizations for which all circles have curvatures in the rational integers. Our aim, in joint work with Alex Kontorovich, is to classify polyhedra with this property and study the integral curvatures of the resulting circle packings. We will start from scratch and report on work toward this goal, with some emphasis on Archimedean and Catalan polyhedra.

Speaker: Kei Nakamura (Rutgers)
Title: Combinatorics and Geometry to Arithmetic of Circle Packings
Abstract: The Koebe-Andreev-Thurston/Schramm theorem assigns a conformally rigid fi-nite circle packing to a convex polyhedron, and then successive inversions yield a conformally rigid infinite circle packing. For example, starting with the tetrahedron, we take a configuration of four pairwise tangent circles and invert successively to obtain the classical Apollonian Circle Packing. The latter, an object of much recent study, is ”arithmetic”, in that there are realizations for which all circles have curvatures in the rational integers. Our aim, in joint work with Alex Kontorovich, is to classify polyhedra with this property and study the integral curvatures of the resulting circle packings. We will start from scratch and report on work toward this goal, with some emphasis on Archimedean and Catalan polyhedra.

Catalan economy grew by 1.5% in 2014, the best year since 2007

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The GDP of Catalonia increased by 1.5% during 2014, according to the definitive figures released by the CatalanStatisticsInstitute (Idescat) on Friday. However, on the same day, the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) published its economic growth figures for 2014 and announced that the Catalan economy had grown by 1.4% last year, the same rate as Spain. In any case, both figures are quite positive after many years of economic crisis and slowdown. In fact, 2014 has been the best year since 2007, when the Catalan economy grew by 3.2% according to the Idescat. The final figure for 2014 is higher than the provisional 1.2% growth rate previously announced. FollowingEuropean Union instructions, the calculations for last year include R&D activities, as well as prostitution and trafficking of drugs and tobacco.
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How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" Catalan

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How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" Catalan

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Fum, Fum, Fum (/ˌfʊm ˌfʊm ˈfʊm/ FUUM FUUM FUUM; Catalan: [ˈfum ˈfum ˈfum]) is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.
It is thought to have originated in the 16th or 17th century. The word "fum" means smoke in Catalan, and it may simply refer to the smoke rising from a chimney as seen from afar, or, as indicated in the New Oxford Book of Carols, "may imitate the sound of a drum (or perhaps the strumming of a guitar)". It is not typical of Spanish tradition but rather of Catalan tradition. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) defines "fum" as "to play upon a fiddle," quoting Ben Jonson, "Follow me, and fum as you go."
One source, the Musical Heritage Society insert 3428 (Christmas Songs From Around the World), indicates that "fum, fum, fum" is an onomatopoeia imitating the noise of a rocking cradle, and that the rhythms come from the Sardana, a courtly dance which originated in Catalonia and the Provence.
Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories.
Catalan evolved from Vulgar Latin around the eastern Pyrenees in the 9th century. During the Low Middle Ages it saw a golden age as the literary and dominant language of the Crown of Aragon, and was widely used all over the Mediterranean. The union of Aragon with the other territories of Spain in 1479 marked the start of the decline of the language. In 1659 Spain ceded Northern Catalonia to France, and Catalan was banned in both states in the early 18th century. 19th-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, which culminated in the 1913 orthographic standardization, and the officialization of the language during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–39). However, the Francoist dictatorship (1939–75) banned the language again.
Since the Spanish transition to democracy (1975–1982), Catalan has been recognized as an official language, language of education, and language of mass media, all of which have contributed to its increased prestige. There is no parallel in Europe of such a large, bilingual, non-state speech community.
Catalan dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation. The terms "Catalan" and "Valencian" (respectively used in Catalonia and the Valencian Community) are two different names for the same language. There are two institutions regulating two standard varieties, the Institute of Catalan Studies in Catalonia and the Valencian Academy of the Language in Valencia. The two standards are based on the same orthographical norms and the differences are similar to those between British and American English.
Catalan shares many traits with its neighboring Romance languages. However, despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Peninsula, Catalan differs more from Iberian Romance (such as Spanish and Portuguese) in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar than from Gallo-Romance (Occitan, French, Gallo-Italic languages, etc.).These similarities are most notable with Occitan.
Catalan has an inflectional grammar, with two genders (masculine, feminine), and two numbers (singular, plural). Pronouns are also inflected for case, animacy[citation needed] and politeness, and can be combined in very complex ways. Verbs are split in several paradigms and are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and gender. In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters, in contrast with many other Romance languages

Saudi tourists visiting Barcelona prefer to stay in Ciutat Vella while Japanese prefer to stay in l’Eixample; average spending by Chinese visitors is 429 € / day while a Swedish tourist just spends 94 € / day; many tourists arriving by cruise ship to the Catalan capital do not visit the city. We know these facts thanks to a big data study which analyzes the mobile phone data of tourists and matches it with the data of credit-card payments made by foreigners.
Local authorities, year after year, are publishing statistics of tourists, and their data may change with big data. If we consider the latest reports published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received in 2015 just over 68 million international tourists. During the same period, a total of 8.3 million tourists stayed in Barcelona. Both are record figures but are they real or are these statistics a rough estimate?
CEO of RocaSalvatella and digital marketing expert, who explaines how big data will revolutionize the tourism sector. Are tourist destinations like Barcelona taking advantage of big data to manage better the flow of visitors they receive? What possibilities do we face now with the use of this data?
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Spain's economy expanded by 0.7 percent between October and December from the previous three months, the National Statistics Institute has confirmed in its final growth assessment.
For all of 2016, the economy grew by 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015. It was the third straight year of expansion since the country came out of recession.
Consumer spending was helped by a recovery in the job market while exports hit a new high last year.
The number of people signing on to pay social security - a…
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Catalan language

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Discussing Spain's economic crisis

One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work as the economic crisis tightens its grip on the country. The NationalStatisticsInstitute said Friday that 85,000 more people joined the ranks of the unemployed between July and September, raising the total to 5.78m. The figures brought the country's unemployment rate up by around 0.4 percentage points in the third quarter, to 25.02 per cent. Jesus Gallego-Garcia, an international coordinator of the General Workers Union, talks to Al Jazeera from Madrid about the economic crisis.

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Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and ...

Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism.
While most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, some locals have been exasperated by the crowds of tourists.
In the first two months of this year, the number of holidaymakers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015.
Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year. ABTA, the United Kingdom's largest travel association and Iberia's main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.
That's broadly seen as good news for the two Iberian economies, which nosedived during Europe's recent financial crisis - but not everyone is cheering.
With the boom showing no signs of slowing and the summer vacation season approaching, some locals are fed up with throngs of tourists clogging the narrow streets of the peninsula's centuries-old cities and crowding its celebrated beaches.
In Palma, capital of the popular Spanish island of Mallorca, graffiti in English appeared on city walls last month saying, "tourist you are the terrorist" and "tourist go home."
In Barcelona, complaints about overcrowding have grown so much that residents elected a mayor last year who is making good on promises to put a brake on new hotel construction and is exchanging ideas with New York City officials on how to cope with the crush.
Tourism analysts say security concerns are helping drive business toward the western Mediterranean areas and away from Europeans' other traditional summer hotspots, especially Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
Turkey's visitor count in April was down nearly 30 percent compared to a year earlier, the tourism ministry said Friday.
Spain, Europe's most popular destination after France, hosted 68.1 million tourists last year - almost 5 percent up on the previous year - with the United Kingdom, France and Germany sending most visitors.
The tourist trade brought in 67.4 billion euros (75.3 billion US dollars) in 2015, the national statistics agency said.
In the first three months of this year, tourism created almost 89,000 new Spanish jobs.
In a country with 20 percent unemployment, that's a welcome development - but some say the surge has to be better managed.
"We are not going to be like Venice, where neighbours and locals have to leave the city while tourists invade it. What must we do?" asks Juan Itxaso, head of the Sagrada Familia neighbours' association in Barcelona.
The Catalan capital of 1.6 million people received 4.2 million tourists in 2005. Last year, that number reached 7 million, triggering alarm.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau is determined to find a balance.
Her administration has imposed a moratorium on new hotel accommodation and is mulling the introduction of a "tourist tax" on visitors, with revenue being spent on other sectors in order to spread the benefits.
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Anti-austerity protest as unemployment hits record high

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1. Wide of people gathered outside Spanish parliament
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3. Close of woman walking with tablet computer
4. Mid of protesters in front of fence
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6. Various of protesters standing in front of police forces with a fence separating the two
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) RosarioPerez, Protester:
"There will be some running, there will be some beating, there will be people reorganising their groups, there will be containers in flames. I just hope I can run enough. But we have to tolerate (it)."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Martin, Protester:
"I am bored of surrounding the parliament and then going back home, I feel like this whole situation should just blow up, otherwise this is just boredom. This country still surprises me, how come it has not blown up yet? This is unacceptable."
9. Wide of people outside parliament
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Protesters gathered outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid on Thursday, as the country's National Statistics Institute announced that more than 6 (m) million Spaniards are unemployed for the first time ever.
Spain's jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the National Statistics Institute said.
On Thursday, 1,400 police were deployed around Parliament and the building was totally cordoned off ahead of an evening demonstration.
Parliament cancelled its session for the day but blamed reasons other than the rally.
Spain has been in recession for much of the past four years as it struggles to deal with the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector in 2008.
The agency said the number of people unemployed rose by 237,400 people in the first three months of the year, a 1.1 percent increase from the previous quarter.
In the previous decade the country's economy was thriving, generating (m) millions of jobs.
The government's handling of the crisis has sparked almost daily protests.
Several previous rallies close to Parliament have ended in clashes with police.
The InteriorMinistry said police arrested four people and confiscated material they believe was to be used to start fires at bank offices in the city.
The ministry claims violent, anti-establishment groups are behind the rally.
Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy has acknowledged that 2013 will be a bad year but insists that it would have been worse without the reforms.
The International Monetary Fund indicated last week that Spain's economy will contract by 1.6 percent this year.
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The Costa Brava, the ‘wild coast’ is the coast of Catalonia, which, with its yearly 50 million visitors, is one of Europe’s largest holiday paradises. The mild, Mediterranean climate, the crystal clear water, the mysterious, rocky bays, the long, sandy beaches, the southern flora, the wonders of the Spanish and Catalonian cuisine, the historical monuments and artistic values invite more and more visitors each year. Such artists were living and creating here as Salvador Dali, AntonGaudi, Picasso, Marc Chagall, and Joan Miro. Cadeques is a city of arts, an untouched fishing village, which also has one of Europe’s largest artistic collections. Figueras is mostly known for its Dali museum. They say that once they kept the Holy Grail in the fort above the picturesque San Pere de Rodes monastery. Basalu, which is famous of its stone bridge, is a travel to the Middle Ages. Empuriabrava, with its canals and lagoons is the Venice of Costa Brava. Girona’s old, labyrinth-like city core is one of the most beautiful ones in Spain. Lloret de Mar is inviting the visitor with the promise of the Mediterranean night, being the center of Europe’s beach discos. Tossa de Mar is the most beautiful place of the whole coast, where the bastions of the old fort stand guard over the magnificent beach. Not even 100 kilometers from Costa Brava there is the Catalonian capital, the city of Gaudi, the ‘stage for the zest of life’, one of Europe’s most beautiful and livable cities, Barcelona
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Visit Catalunya - Top 10 Places to Visit in Catalunya

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Barcelona, Spain Travel Guide - Must-See Attractions

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Barcelona is the capital of Catolonia and the second largest city in Spain. Barcelona is today one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair/exhibitions and cultural-sports centres, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of theworld's major global cities.
The most important places to visit in Barcelona are: La Sagrada Familia (This was the largest project by Antoni Gaudi. The construction of this world famous church began in 1882 and is still ongoing), Casa Mila (also known as La Pedrera, it was architected by the great Antoni Gaudi. The unusual rooftop can be seen on many postcards from Barcelona), La Rambla (probably the most famous area of Barcelona and very popular amongst tourists. Don't forget to appreciate the history while watching street performers), Gothic Quarter (it the center of Barcelona's Old City. Amidst the buildings from medieval times, you will feel transported back in time), La Boqueria (a colorful market where you will find both locals and visitors. Besides the freshness of produce, presentation is extremely eye catching), Plaza de Espana (it is a grand, massive square in the middle of Barcelona. The square was built back in 1920 for the international exhibition), Parc Guell (Barcelona has many great landmarks designed by the world renowned architect, Antoni Gaudi. One of them is the unique Parc Guell) and many more.
This video offers a lot of tips to help you plan the perfect vacation. If you want to save time and money, the most important Barcelona travel tip is to compare prices before booking a hotel room or a flight. You can do this for free on http://bookinghunter.com, a site that searches through hundreds of other travel websites in real time for the best travel deals available.

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Catalonia, Spain - Sustainable Tourism - Unravel Travel TV

Catalonia has countless rural tourism options, with something for everyone. You will find ...

Catalonia, Spain - Sustainable Tourism - Unravel Travel TV

Catalonia has countless rural tourism options, with something for everyone. You will find Catalonia's most rural spots in a careful selection of very special rural accommodation, where authenticity and friendliness are among the most outstanding features. These rural tourism establishments are classified by ears of wheat, a new category comparable to the stars used for hotels. Each ears-of-wheat category establishes a set of features taking account of the specific characteristics of the building, its rooms, furniture and outdoor spaces, not forgetting the services offered to guests and the activities available in the area. Country homes, farmhouses and agro-tourism establishments in isolated rural areas or small villages. Individual accommodation or accommodation shared with the owners and other guests, allowing us to enjoy a wide range of options in our free time and to discover other ways of life connected with nature and the countryside.
Catalonia offers numerous natural areas that are ideal for leisure, adventure and nature watching activities, all while enjoying its varied landscape. From the highest peaks of the Pyrenees to the most well-hidden coves of the Mediterranean, through the valleys of inland Catalonia and the natural sites of the Ebro delta and the Lands of Lleida, active & nature tourism offers a variety of options within everyone's reach. The mild climate allows to take part in various activities throughout the year, such as hiking on an extensive network of long and short routes, cycling through the Greenways and mountain biking in one of Catalonia's 18 MTB centres. You can also interpret nature, observing flora and fauna, exploring the seabed or walking in one of Catalonia's nature spaces.
The secret of Catalan cuisine is in the quality and uniqueness of the products used, plus the combination of what is offered by the land and the sea. Prades potatoes, wines from the Penedès, the ganxet bean, Siurana olive oil, calçots (a type of tender onion) from Valls, rice from the Ebro Delta, sausage from Vic and the cheeses of Alt Urgell, to name but a few of the Catalan products with certification of origin and agri-food quality. Catalan cuisine is internationally renowned for achieving a difficult balance between innovation and tradition, through the work of chefs like JoanRoca, Carme Ruscalleda, Santi Santamaria and, above all, Ferran Adrià, who from the kitchens of El Bulli restaurant revolutionised the world gastronomy scene. Behind the cuisine of Catalonia today lies the story of a country, a land, a way of being and of doing things. That is why it has been nominated for recognition by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity. In addition to its many restaurants of all kinds, Catalonia has a network of public markets where product quality is paramount, and a number of groups of restauranteurs dedicated to promoting the cuisine typical of each area, working with the two terms of territory and product. The biodiversity of Catalonia's landscape also allows you to take part in adventure activities like rafting and hydrospeeding on several rivers, sea kayaking, canyoning, hang gliding, paragliding, ballooning, skydiving, horseback riding and climbing.
The Industrial Revolution in the Iberian Peninsula began in Catalonia, which became one of the most industrially dynamic regions of Europe. The new steam-based industry brought changes to manufacturing processes, transportation systems and even to the way workers lived. These changes can be seen in numerous examples of industrial heritage conserved in Catalonia, located around the Llobregat and Ter rivers. In Catalonia, the modernist art movement is closely associated with the Industrial Revolution. The modernist imprint is evident in factories like the VaporVell de Sants in Barcelona (one of the first in Catalonia), the Anís del Mono factory in Badalona, and the FreixenetCava winery in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia. One of the most characteristic elements of Catalan industrial heritage are its textile factory colonies, located in rural areas by the river. Some examples are ColoniaGüell in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, the Viladomiu colonies in Gironella, and the Borgonyà colony in Sant Vicenç de Torelló. These small villages have all the services necessary for the workers, dedicated exclusively to the factory and their families. Throughout Catalonia there are examples of this industrial heritage, and of factories still in operation, in the fields of food, design, cars, wine, etc. More information is available from the Catalan Industrial TourismNetwork or from the Museum of Science and Technology in Terrassa.
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BARCELONA | CATALONIA , SPAIN - A TRAVEL TOUR - HD 1080P

A walking tour around Barcelona, the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia...

BARCELONA | CATALONIA , SPAIN - A TRAVEL TOUR - HD 1080P

A walking tour around Barcelona, the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain.
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The film begins in the early morning and progresses to the small hours of the night, showing daily life around Barcelona.
For those planning on visiting, those who’d like to visit but cannot or those who might be nostalgic and want to re-live their past visits / life there, hopefully this film shall satisfy, time and time again.
Filmed during January 2013.
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A Perfect Day in Barcelona - Travel Guide

What makes for the perfect day in Barcelona? That is a tough one...but Brian & Ivette thin...

A Perfect Day in Barcelona - Travel Guide

What makes for the perfect day in Barcelona? That is a tough one...but Brian & Ivette think they are up to the task. They take you on a private tour through one of their favorite cities and include helpful tips to get the most out of your next trip to the amazing city, regardless of how much time you have to spend there. Follow them as they show you the perfect day in Barcelona.
Como podrías pasar el día perfecto en Barcelona? Ahhh, es una pregunta difícil de contestar... pero Brian e Ivette creen que pueden ayudarte. Ellos te van a dar un tour privado de una de sus ciudades favoritas, Barcelona, y te enseñarán como puedes maximizar tu tiempo en esta ciudad sin importar cuanto tiempo vas a estar allí. Síguelos y ellos te enseñarán como pasarte un día perfecto en Barcelona!
If you have any questions about Barcelona please leave them in the comments below and they will be glad to respond :)
Si tienes preguntas acerca de Barcelona, déjanos un comentario abajo y te responderemos, es un placer poder ayudarte :)
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Catalonia Travel Guide

Travel video about destination Catalonia.
Sights & Attractions in Catalonia.
The Catalonia region, in northeastern Spain, is known for the lively beach resorts of Costa Brava, the Pyrenees mountains and as home to surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Barcelona, the regional capital, has an ancient Gothic Quarter, La Rambla pedestrian mall and several beaches. Antoni Gaudí’s distinctive architecture can be seen at the Sagrada Família basilica and in the colorful mosaics of Park Güell.
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Catalan economy grew by 1.5% in 2014, the best year since 2007

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The GDP of Catalonia increased by 1.5% during 2014, according to the definitive figures released by the CatalanStatisticsInstitute (Idescat) on Friday. However, on the same day, the Spanish Statistics Institute (INE) published its economic growth figures for 2014 and announced that the Catalan economy had grown by 1.4% last year, the same rate as Spain. In any case, both figures are quite positive after many years of economic crisis and slowdown. In fact, 2014 has been the best year since 2007, when the Catalan economy grew by 3.2% according to the Idescat. The final figure for 2014 is higher than the provisional 1.2% growth rate previously announced. FollowingEuropean Union instructions, the calculations for last year include R&D activities, as well as prostitution and trafficking of drugs and tobacco.
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How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" Catalan

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How To Play Piano: "Fum...

How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" Catalan

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How To Play Piano: "Fum, Fum, Fum" CatalanYou Can Learn Piano From Basic to Advance by Watching These MusicClips
Fum, Fum, Fum (/ˌfʊm ˌfʊm ˈfʊm/ FUUM FUUM FUUM; Catalan: [ˈfum ˈfum ˈfum]) is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.
It is thought to have originated in the 16th or 17th century. The word "fum" means smoke in Catalan, and it may simply refer to the smoke rising from a chimney as seen from afar, or, as indicated in the New Oxford Book of Carols, "may imitate the sound of a drum (or perhaps the strumming of a guitar)". It is not typical of Spanish tradition but rather of Catalan tradition. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) defines "fum" as "to play upon a fiddle," quoting Ben Jonson, "Follow me, and fum as you go."
One source, the Musical Heritage Society insert 3428 (Christmas Songs From Around the World), indicates that "fum, fum, fum" is an onomatopoeia imitating the noise of a rocking cradle, and that the rhythms come from the Sardana, a courtly dance which originated in Catalonia and the Provence.
Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Valencian Community (where the language is known as Valencian, and there exist regional standards). It also has semi-official status in the city of Alghero on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is also spoken with no official recognition in parts of the Spanish autonomous communities of Aragon (La Franja) and Murcia (Carche), and in the historic French region of Roussillon/Northern Catalonia, roughly equivalent to the department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
According to the Statistical Institute of Catalonia in 2008 the Catalan language is the second most commonly used in Catalonia, after Spanish, as a native or self-defining language. The Generalitat of Catalunya spends part of its annual budget on the promotion of the use of Catalan in Catalonia and in other territories.
Catalan evolved from Vulgar Latin around the eastern Pyrenees in the 9th century. During the Low Middle Ages it saw a golden age as the literary and dominant language of the Crown of Aragon, and was widely used all over the Mediterranean. The union of Aragon with the other territories of Spain in 1479 marked the start of the decline of the language. In 1659 Spain ceded Northern Catalonia to France, and Catalan was banned in both states in the early 18th century. 19th-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, which culminated in the 1913 orthographic standardization, and the officialization of the language during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–39). However, the Francoist dictatorship (1939–75) banned the language again.
Since the Spanish transition to democracy (1975–1982), Catalan has been recognized as an official language, language of education, and language of mass media, all of which have contributed to its increased prestige. There is no parallel in Europe of such a large, bilingual, non-state speech community.
Catalan dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation. The terms "Catalan" and "Valencian" (respectively used in Catalonia and the Valencian Community) are two different names for the same language. There are two institutions regulating two standard varieties, the Institute of Catalan Studies in Catalonia and the Valencian Academy of the Language in Valencia. The two standards are based on the same orthographical norms and the differences are similar to those between British and American English.
Catalan shares many traits with its neighboring Romance languages. However, despite being mostly situated in the Iberian Peninsula, Catalan differs more from Iberian Romance (such as Spanish and Portuguese) in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar than from Gallo-Romance (Occitan, French, Gallo-Italic languages, etc.).These similarities are most notable with Occitan.
Catalan has an inflectional grammar, with two genders (masculine, feminine), and two numbers (singular, plural). Pronouns are also inflected for case, animacy[citation needed] and politeness, and can be combined in very complex ways. Verbs are split in several paradigms and are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and gender. In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters, in contrast with many other Romance languages

Saudi tourists visiting Barcelona prefer to stay in Ciutat Vella while Japanese prefer to stay in l’Eixample; average spending by Chinese visitors is 429 € / day while a Swedish tourist just spends 94 € / day; many tourists arriving by cruise ship to the Catalan capital do not visit the city. We know these facts thanks to a big data study which analyzes the mobile phone data of tourists and matches it with the data of credit-card payments made by foreigners.
Local authorities, year after year, are publishing statistics of tourists, and their data may change with big data. If we consider the latest reports published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Spain received in 2015 just over 68 million international tourists. During the same period, a total of 8.3 million tourists stayed in Barcelona. Both are record figures but are they real or are these statistics a rough estimate?
CEO of RocaSalvatella and digital marketing expert, who explaines how big data will revolutionize the tourism sector. Are tourist destinations like Barcelona taking advantage of big data to manage better the flow of visitors they receive? What possibilities do we face now with the use of this data?
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Spain's economy expanded by 0.7 percent between October and December from the previous three months, the National Statistics Institute has confirmed in its final growth assessment.
For all of 2016, the economy grew by 3.2 percent, the same as in 2015. It was the third straight year of expansion since the country came out of recession.
Consumer spending was helped by a recovery in the job market while exports hit a new high last year.
The number of people signing on to pay social security - a…
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Catalan language

Catalan (/ˈkætəlæn/; autonym: català [kətəˈɫa] or [kataˈɫa]) is a Romance language named f...

Discussing Spain's economic crisis

One Spaniard in four is now officially out of work as the economic crisis tightens its grip on the country. The NationalStatisticsInstitute said Friday that 85,000 more people joined the ranks of the unemployed between July and September, raising the total to 5.78m. The figures brought the country's unemployment rate up by around 0.4 percentage points in the third quarter, to 25.02 per cent. Jesus Gallego-Garcia, an international coordinator of the General Workers Union, talks to Al Jazeera from Madrid about the economic crisis.

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Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and ...

Record-breaking tourist season expected in Spain

(28 May 2016) With sunny days getting longer and lazier, sparkling beaches warming up and terrorism fears driving customers away from other Mediterranean destinations, Spain and Portugal are reaping an economic bonanza from tourism.
While most in the cash-strapped nations are welcoming the influx, some locals have been exasperated by the crowds of tourists.
In the first two months of this year, the number of holidaymakers arriving in Spain was up more than 11 percent on the same period in 2015.
Authorities predict that Spain is on course for its fourth straight record-breaking tourism year. ABTA, the United Kingdom's largest travel association and Iberia's main market, reports that bookings to Portugal are 29 percent up compared to last year, and are 26 percent higher for Spain.
That's broadly seen as good news for the two Iberian economies, which nosedived during Europe's recent financial crisis - but not everyone is cheering.
With the boom showing no signs of slowing and the summer vacation season approaching, some locals are fed up with throngs of tourists clogging the narrow streets of the peninsula's centuries-old cities and crowding its celebrated beaches.
In Palma, capital of the popular Spanish island of Mallorca, graffiti in English appeared on city walls last month saying, "tourist you are the terrorist" and "tourist go home."
In Barcelona, complaints about overcrowding have grown so much that residents elected a mayor last year who is making good on promises to put a brake on new hotel construction and is exchanging ideas with New York City officials on how to cope with the crush.
Tourism analysts say security concerns are helping drive business toward the western Mediterranean areas and away from Europeans' other traditional summer hotspots, especially Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey.
Turkey's visitor count in April was down nearly 30 percent compared to a year earlier, the tourism ministry said Friday.
Spain, Europe's most popular destination after France, hosted 68.1 million tourists last year - almost 5 percent up on the previous year - with the United Kingdom, France and Germany sending most visitors.
The tourist trade brought in 67.4 billion euros (75.3 billion US dollars) in 2015, the national statistics agency said.
In the first three months of this year, tourism created almost 89,000 new Spanish jobs.
In a country with 20 percent unemployment, that's a welcome development - but some say the surge has to be better managed.
"We are not going to be like Venice, where neighbours and locals have to leave the city while tourists invade it. What must we do?" asks Juan Itxaso, head of the Sagrada Familia neighbours' association in Barcelona.
The Catalan capital of 1.6 million people received 4.2 million tourists in 2005. Last year, that number reached 7 million, triggering alarm.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau is determined to find a balance.
Her administration has imposed a moratorium on new hotel accommodation and is mulling the introduction of a "tourist tax" on visitors, with revenue being spent on other sectors in order to spread the benefits.
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Anti-austerity protest as unemployment hits record high

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1. Wide of people gathered outside Spanish parliament
2. Protesters standing in front of police fence, with police cars in background
3. Close of woman walking with tablet computer
4. Mid of protesters in front of fence
5. Cameraman filming police forces through fence
6. Various of protesters standing in front of police forces with a fence separating the two
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) RosarioPerez, Protester:
"There will be some running, there will be some beating, there will be people reorganising their groups, there will be containers in flames. I just hope I can run enough. But we have to tolerate (it)."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marta Martin, Protester:
"I am bored of surrounding the parliament and then going back home, I feel like this whole situation should just blow up, otherwise this is just boredom. This country still surprises me, how come it has not blown up yet? This is unacceptable."
9. Wide of people outside parliament
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Protesters gathered outside the Spanish parliament in Madrid on Thursday, as the country's National Statistics Institute announced that more than 6 (m) million Spaniards are unemployed for the first time ever.
Spain's jobless rate shot up to a record 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the National Statistics Institute said.
On Thursday, 1,400 police were deployed around Parliament and the building was totally cordoned off ahead of an evening demonstration.
Parliament cancelled its session for the day but blamed reasons other than the rally.
Spain has been in recession for much of the past four years as it struggles to deal with the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector in 2008.
The agency said the number of people unemployed rose by 237,400 people in the first three months of the year, a 1.1 percent increase from the previous quarter.
In the previous decade the country's economy was thriving, generating (m) millions of jobs.
The government's handling of the crisis has sparked almost daily protests.
Several previous rallies close to Parliament have ended in clashes with police.
The InteriorMinistry said police arrested four people and confiscated material they believe was to be used to start fires at bank offices in the city.
The ministry claims violent, anti-establishment groups are behind the rally.
Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy has acknowledged that 2013 will be a bad year but insists that it would have been worse without the reforms.
The International Monetary Fund indicated last week that Spain's economy will contract by 1.6 percent this year.
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